[CentOS] wait() fails
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.orgThu Dec 1 16:24:54 UTC 2005
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Michael Ubell wrote: > I have a program that forks a child, sleeps for a while > and then kills the child and waits for it. > > On CentOs (4) the wait sometimes fails with a > "No child" error. I have not seen this on any > other system. This program has been > running for years on Solaris, older Redhat distributions, etc. > I would say the failure rate is about 1 in 10. > > I put a breakpoint on the error and forced the > code to wait again. It works the second time. > > Is this a known bug? > not known as far as I can tell. Is there a test script that can reproduce this issue ? is this on a specific Arch ? can you file at http://bugs.centos.org/ - we can handle it there perhaps ? - K
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