Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:20:50 +0200 | From | "Remco van 't Veer" <> | Subject | "Solved": fork problem (Re: fork or exec thingy.) |
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The problems I reported earlier are NOT being caused by a bug in the Linux kernel. Please refer to <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4437> for details.
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 17:07, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> On 22 Jul 1999, Terje Malmedal wrote: > > > Bash on Linux seems to have problems starting subprocesses > > occasionally, the following program fails randomly: > > -------------------------- > > #!/bin/bash
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> The crashing application is a feature-rich scheduler tightly > integrated with Oracle. It does not show this problem on on > linux-2.0.35 with glibc-2.0.7 and 8 other Unix flavours. > > The scheduler crashes when it fork/execs two agents. These agents > connect to the Oracle database by means of the BEQ-protocol (a helper > process is fork/execed by the oracle OCI-library). The last fork() > call returns the child pid to the parent but the child process never > reaches the code after the fork. The child dumps core before that..
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> I am not sure if this is a glibc problem, a kernel problem or a > combination. dmesg shows no related messages.
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