Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthias Urlichs" <> | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:51:55 +0100 | Subject | Re: BUG: NTPL: waitpid() doesn't return? |
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Hi,
bert hubert: > It might be that in the NPTL world only one waitpid() can run per process > simultaneously?
Good call ...
> Do you wait for all pids or for a specific one? > ... looking at the strace output, I see that thre are four different threads calling fork+child-exec/parent-waitpid() in parallel. The last one actually succeeds, so you might be right with this analysis.
*Sigh* No matter how many people work at that code in the kernel, it's _still_ fragile. :-/
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