Re: runit not collecting zombies

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-qpsmtpd@budge.apana.org.au>]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Alex Efros wrote:

> I think this is normal ssh behaviour and doesn't related to zombie issue.

No. It might be usual ssh behaviour, but it's wrong behaviour and is 
related to the zombie issue. Please re-read my earlier posts to the 
thread.

> # tail /tmp/ssh_strace3
> [pid 14926] connect(6, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 110) = 0
> [pid 14926] send(6, "<38>Sep 15 15:23:15 sshd[14926]:"..., 65, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 65
> [pid 14926] close(6)                    = 0
> [pid 14926] exit_group(255)             = ?
> Process 14926 detached
> [pid 14925] <... read resumed> 0x5baa81ac, 4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> [pid 14925] --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> [pid 14925] read(6, "", 4)              = 0
> [pid 14925] exit_group(255)             = ?
> Process 14925 detached

You won't see zombies if process 14925 reads exit status of process 14926 
before it exits.

Yes, runit should reap that status, but that doesn't change the fact that 
ssh is wrong. Note also that SIGCHLD is delivered to sshd process, not to 
runit, because 14926 terminates before 14925.

IMO this is a bug in the privilege separation code in openssh.