From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: NTPL: waitpid() doesn't return?
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:18:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040131161805.GA15941@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040131155155.GA1504@kiste>
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:51:55PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > 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. :-/
If they do not wait for a specific pid, the kernel is right. The kernel has
no way of knowing which process a specific waitpid is waiting for otherwise!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-31 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-31 10:46 BUG: NTPL: waitpid() doesn't return? Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 15:37 ` bert hubert
2004-01-31 15:51 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 16:18 ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-01-31 18:15 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 19:19 ` bert hubert
2004-01-31 20:49 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 21:18 ` bert hubert
2004-01-31 21:41 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 21:52 ` Roland McGrath
2004-01-31 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-31 20:00 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-31 21:11 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-31 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-31 22:29 ` Matthias Urlichs
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