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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:37:10 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        gerti-freebsds@bitart.com
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Random signal 9 (SIGKILL), please help!
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Gerd Knops wrote:

> I think I found a correlation between pid roll over (from 99999
> to 0) and the spurious signals. Some program seems to keep
> taps on pids that already went away, and when they 'come back' they
> are killed again. I am suspicious of syslogd at the moment (I pipe
> syslog output through a filter), one of the very few programs in the
> base system that are running on those systems and that uses SIGKILL.
> 
> However it will probably take some time before I can wrap my head
> around that code, it's not exactly heavily commented... If anyone
> with more intimate knowledge could have a look I'd appreciate that.

Apparently syslogd could do this, I think a fix was commited recently,
before RELENG_4 was branched, and it was fixed in RELENG_3 as well
(possibly RELENG_2_2 even).

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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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