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SubjectRe: waitid breaks telnet
At 08:27 PM 11/30/04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Joe Korty <kortyads@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > [ 2nd send, this one from my home email account...]
> >
> > telnet no longer works:
> >
> > # chkconfig telnet on
> > # telnet localhost
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 2)
> > Kernel 2.6.10-rc2 on an i686
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > A bsearch placed the bug between 2.6.9-rc1-bk[78], another
> > bsearch on the changesets showed the problem is caused
> > by this patch:
> >
> > roland@redhat.com[torvalds]|ChangeSet|20040831173525|30767
> > [PATCH] waitid system call
> >
> > My guess is, something about the new wait4(2) wrapper
> > is causing the telnet daemon to declare success before
> > its child, /bin/login, exits.
>
>I can reproduce this on 2.6.10-rc2, but it seems to have been fixed in more
>recent kernels. However I cannot think of anything which we did which
>would have fixed this.

I was able to reproduce it with the day-before-yesterday''s bitkeeper tree.

My boss sees broken kernels work once in a while. I myself have
never been able to get a broken kernel to work. The problem may
be a race.

Joe


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