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From: noel@es.su.oz.au
To: Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>,
	The rc Mailing List <rc@archone.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: solaris 2.2 & rshd & rc
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 21:54:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199403291254.26792.out.bajem@es.su.oz.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199403290229.AA01584@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>

    From:	Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
    Subject: solaris 2.2 & rshd & rc

    When doing a rsh command to a solaris 2.2 box, I find that the rc
    started by rshd hangs in a cpu loop after the command has terminated.
    Interestingly, SIGCLD is ingored in both rshd & rc.  Has anyone else
    fixed this problem ?

it's not that rc _ignores_ SIGCLD, it just doesn't touch it. when rc
is started by login and forks a program, you will notice that SIGCLD
is SIG_DFL. but when rc is started by rshd, it must be set to SIG_IGN.
bad shit happens in sysvr4 when this is done, namely, a parent is not
notified of the death of a child, so rc just sits in that wait loop
waiting to pick up the status of the child it just forked, a status
it will never get. i noticed the cpu in a tight loop when this happened.

anyway, i just hacked the code to make sure SIGCLD is _always_ SIG_DFL.
this seems to fix the problem.


  reply	other threads:[~1994-03-29  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1994-03-29  2:29 Scott Merrilees
1994-03-29  2:54 ` noel [this message]
1994-03-29  3:13   ` Scott Merrilees

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