30 Nov
2005
30 Nov
'05
8:13 p.m.
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?
Mike