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Re: [bug-bash] Named fifo's causing hanging bash scripts


From: Dr. Werner Fink
Subject: Re: [bug-bash] Named fifo's causing hanging bash scripts
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:47:49 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:46:02AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >>
> >> What do ps and gdb tell you about pid 19175 (and the corresponding pid in
> >> the call to waitchld in the other traceback)?  Running, terminated, reaped,
> >> other?
> > 
> >   d136:~ # ps 10942
> >     PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> >   d136:~ #
> > 
> > ... the process does not exists anymore. I guess that this could belong to
> > the sed commands of the script.  
> 
> This is why I need to be able to reproduce it.  If the process got reaped,
> when would it have happened and why would the call to wait_for() have
> found a valid CHILD struct for it?  The whole loop runs with SIGCHLD
> blocked, so it's not as if the signal handler could have reaped the
> child out from under it.  I have questions but no way to find answers.

OK, thanks for your effort ... I've strip the spec file down step by step and
reached success at commenting out -DMUST_UNBLOCK_CHLD=1 (mea culpa) ...  many
thanks for your help!

Werner

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