Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

From: Marko Kreen (marko@l-t.ee)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 19:39:17 EST

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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:20:50AM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> From: "Marko Kreen" <marko@l-t.ee>
> > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> > > When i do a "su - <user>" it just hangs.
> > > When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the child.

> No i use redhat 6.2 (on a alpha system).
> It works fine with 2.4.3, which i am running now ( i backed out 2.4.4 ).

Could you try 2.4.5-pre1? If that too works then the problem
quite possibly was indeed fork() child-first change. If not,
well, then it gets interesting...

-- marko

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