Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-06T19:21:58Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>> Are you saying waitpid() (wait4) *with a pid specified* can return another pid?
>> That definitely sounds like a bug.
>
> No.
>
> For the full context look back a couple of messages.
>
> I'm guessing the issue is nash just calls wait and doesn't check the
> returned pid value, assuming it is the only child it forked returning.
> Which is valid except when you are running as pid == 1.
>

OK, userspace error :)

-hpa