From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:07:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:06:52 -0400 Received: from vill.ha.smisk.nu ([212.75.83.8]:37645 "HELO mail.fbab.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:06:41 -0400 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mag@fbab.net via mail.fbab.net X-Qmail-Scanner-Rcpt-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Qmail-Scanner: 0.94 (No viruses found. Processed in 8.029956 secs) Message-ID: <00fb01c0d596$afb30690$020a0a0a@totalmef> From: "Magnus Naeslund\(f\)" To: "linux-kernel" Subject: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:07:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I saw that there was something changed on how fork() works, and wonder if this could be the cause my problem. When i do a "su - " it just hangs. When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the child. Sometimes when i strace the su command it succeeds to give me a shell, sometimes not. But it allways fails when i don't strace it. Magnus Naeslund -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Programmer/Networker [|] Magnus Naeslund PGP Key: http://www.genline.nu/mag_pgp.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-