Minor bug: win32 ZSnes mishandles OS kill request

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:52 am

The Windows version of Zsnes doesn't handle being killed by the OS gracefully.

You can see this behavior by running zsnesw, then running

taskkill /IM zsnesw.exe

The OS kills the window, but the sound and zsnesw keep running. You have to forceably kill it with /F. This means that front ends with a unified exit feature (like GameEx) cannot cleanly terminate ZSnes (causing lost SRAMs)

Post by **Nach** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:45 pm

How does that kill it exactly? Sends a signal?

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:46 pm

I blame taskkill. Poor, underpowered version of the real thing, and last time I checked, doesn't free memory correctly.
It only works correctly with programs made to work with it - the nesticle way.