> [cut lots of stuff]
>
> I missed the original posting here - could someone please tell me what
> the actual symptons are, as I suspect I know what may be causing the
> problem.
Basically, a perl script running another command using the backticks
syntax (`foo`), from cron (this is important for some reason), ends up
receiving ECHILD for the child's exit status.
Simplest test case:
#!/usr/bin/perl
`cmp -s /bin/ls /bin/ls`;
die "$!" if ($? != 0);
If I run this from cron (as root, haven't tried it yet as myself), I get a
mail saying:
No child processes at <script filename> line 3.
In terms of system calls, it goes like this:
pipe()
fork()
[parent pid] read from pipe(...
[child pid] do something
[child pid] exit(0)
[parent pid] read from pipe() resumed
wait4(child pid) = -ECHILD
I can reproduce this at will. Yet, it's a "theoretically impossible"
situation.
Ion
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