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SubjectRe: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)
* Magnus Naeslund(f) schrieb am 05.05.01 um 21:07 Uhr:
> Hello, I saw that there was something changed on how fork() works, and
> wonder if this could be the cause my problem.
> When i do a "su - <user>" it just hangs.
> When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the child.
>
> Sometimes when i strace the su command it succeeds to give me a shell,
> sometimes not.
> But it allways fails when i don't strace it.
>

Hi Magnus,

use 2.4.5-pre1 instead, Linus has undone the fork()-change for some
reason ;-)

Cheers
-Marc


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