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Re: LYNX-DEV SunOS 4, crl.com, and NSL_FORK
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: LYNX-DEV SunOS 4, crl.com, and NSL_FORK |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:31:35 -0400 (EDT) |
> Ummm. Too bad. The child crashes, then the parent feels compelled
> to try again, and itself crash. I'd attempt to fix this and bypass
> the retry by the parent if the child crashes. But I'm mystified:
> Why did waitpid() get status 0x0 for the child? I'm pretty much a
> novice at process management. Can anyone explain this to me?
There's two parts - did the child exit with a 0, and does waitpid get
the right code. I just added some code to my pending copy that assumes
that the lookup returned a bogus value (length=0), and that's the cause.
If so, it'll check that & return a 1.
(If not, then there's a bug in the waitpid configuration - but we'll figure
that out sooner or later).
> Thanks,
> gil
>
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