Re: Possible task exit bug?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 24 May 1999 21:21:54 +0100 (BST)


> (among other things), so I decided it was easier to ask here :-). glibc fork
> and waitpid just go straight through to the kernel, so if there is a problem
> (which I believe there is), it seems its in the kernel.
>
> So, any thoughts?

You are relying on the prior state of SIGCLD masking. You can't do that. The
cron is being bad by using odd defaults.

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