Re: [CentOS] wait() fails

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