Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:07:04 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> I'm guessing the issue is nash just calls wait and doesn't check the >> returned pid value, assuming it is the only child it forked returning. >> Which is valid except when you are running as pid == 1. >> > > Hm, that's always a bug; a process can always have children it doesn't > expect (think forking, and then the parent execs). >
Not if the process already forked.
But yes, in general this is a major screwup.
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