Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I'm guessing the issue is nash just calls wait and doesn't check the
> returned pid value, assuming it is the only child it forked returning.
> Which is valid except when you are running as pid == 1.
>   

Hm, that's always a bug; a process can always have children it doesn't
expect (think forking, and then the parent execs).

    J
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