On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:32:28 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
[...]
> 	  while (1) {
> 		  siginfo_t si = {};
> 
> 		  waitid(P_PID, child, &si,
> 			 WSTOPPED | WCONTINUED | WNOWAIT | WNOHANG);
> 		  if (!si.si_pid)
> 			  break;
> 	  }
> 
> 	  kill(control, SIGKILL);
> 	  kill(child, SIGKILL);
> 	  return 0;
>   }
> 
> waitid(2) should always succeed as it's never consuming wait state,
> but it does, with or without the patch.  All transitions need to be
> made water tight to remove the bug.

It may be not related, I do not inderstand the kernel internals being
discussed.

I was told by Roland McGrath that after SIGCHLD of a ptrace even from tracee
invokes sighandler for that SIGCHLD in the tracer then waitpid(WNOHANG) still
may return 0 as the signal is not yet ready.  I was not able to reproduce it
with a testcase myself.

But if it is a case it should be fixed as there is no later notification when
to call waitpid(WNOHANG) again.  And sure the debugger cannot busy-loop poll
it.


Thanks,
Jan