Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 19:39:03 +0000 From: Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/14729: sysinstall doesn't reap zombies Message-ID: <E11jpCR-000BKs-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>
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>Number: 14729 >Category: bin >Synopsis: when sysinstall is running as init it should reap zombies but doesn't >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 5 11:50:00 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tony Finch >Release: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE-19990927 i386 >Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. >Environment: FreeBSD-3.3-RELEASE install floppies >Description: While an FTP install was proceeding I switched to the emergency holographic shell on ttyv3 in order to install some non-standard software. I ran its GNU configure script which died partway through because the process table filled. On investigation I found that the process table was full of unreaped zombies with a ppid of 1. >How-To-Repeat: see above (the software was a hacked ssh, but I expect any configure script would have these problems). >Fix: Well, I thought it would be because sysinstall's signal handling is different from init's, but at least regarding SIGCHLD they are the same: they both do nothing. So I don't know. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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