This happens, for example, when the rpc endpoint is already registered by another ccapiserver process. There's no reason to leave a zombie process running that can't receive messages. https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/5afb7bcbb9a5bd76132be60b58c01f6a3e5e3f7c Commit By: tlyu Revision: 25540 Changed Files: U trunk/src/ccapi/common/win/win-utils.h U trunk/src/ccapi/server/win/ccs_os_server.cpp