Re: BUG: NTPL: waitpid() doesn't return?

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

bert hubert:
> It might be that in the NPTL world only one waitpid() can run per process
> simultaneously?

Good call ...

> Do you wait for all pids or for a specific one?
> 
... looking at the strace output, I see that thre are four different
threads calling fork+child-exec/parent-waitpid() in parallel. The last
one actually succeeds, so you might be right with this analysis.

*Sigh* No matter how many people work at that code in the kernel, it's
_still_ fragile.  :-/

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Matthias Urlichs     |     noris network AG     |     http://smurf.noris.de/
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