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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
To: rehan khan <rehan.khan@dsl.pipex.com>
Cc: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name>, supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: RE: runit not collecting zombies
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:13:04 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802251349140.10779@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F2BE60A0EF6D478B1BCC633DEC28CC082BEE@server.home.internal>


On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, rehan khan wrote:

> I don't think the kernel is implicated if you haven't restarted the 
> machine.

Well *I* don't think that runit-init is implicated, since it hasn't been 
restarted.

So where does that leave us?

My understanding is that there are only two items of software involved in 
the reaping of zombies - the kernel, and process 1 (i.e. runit-init).

Given their relative complexities, I'd say that a bug in the kernel is 
more likely than a bug in runit-init. Gerrit has looked for a bug in 
runit-init and not found one. Other people run the same runit-init as 
Alex, but a different kernel, and don't see the problem. That also makes 
me suspect a kernel problem.

If you were to supply me with a malicious bash, how would it be able to 
create zombies which my runit-init did not reap? IOW, I don't see how bash 
could be implicated.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 23:07 Radek Podgorny
2007-05-26 10:35 ` Alex Efros
2007-05-26 10:45   ` Alex Efros
2007-05-26 12:55   ` Charlie Brady
2007-05-26 13:03     ` Alex Efros
2007-05-26 17:01   ` Paul Jarc
2007-06-02 14:55     ` Alex Efros
2007-06-03 11:10   ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-03 14:33     ` Alex Efros
2007-06-03 16:31       ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-11 13:11     ` Alex Efros
2007-06-18 13:45       ` Alex Efros
2007-06-19 18:13         ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-19 19:07           ` Alex Efros
2007-06-20 16:23             ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-20 16:57               ` Alex Efros
2007-06-20 18:35                 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-23  4:42                   ` Alex Efros
2007-06-26  9:59                     ` Gerrit Pape
2007-07-07  7:16                       ` Alex Efros
2007-07-07 18:13                         ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-07 19:12                           ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 14:21                             ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:41                               ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 14:45                                 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:57                                   ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 14:42                           ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:43                             ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:49                             ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 15:11                               ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 15:15                                 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 15:40                                   ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-15 14:47                       ` Alex Efros
2007-07-15 19:07                         ` Alex Efros
2007-07-15 20:18                           ` George Georgalis
2007-07-15 20:31                             ` Paul Jarc
2007-07-15 22:35                               ` George Georgalis
2007-07-15 23:06                                 ` Paul Jarc
2007-07-15 23:23                                   ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-16  0:09                                     ` Alex Efros
2007-07-16  2:11                                       ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 12:53                                         ` Radek Podgorny
     [not found]                                         ` <47939.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189601606.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-12 13:55                                           ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 14:35                                             ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 14:55                                               ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 15:00                                                 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 16:02                                                   ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 16:10                                                     ` Radek Podgorny
2007-09-12 17:22                                                     ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 17:40                                                       ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 18:18                                                         ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:07                                                           ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 19:13                                                             ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:18                                                               ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 19:30                                                                 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:37                                                                   ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 13:36                                                                 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 13:57                                                                   ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:20                                                                     ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 15:28                                                                       ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:47                                                                         ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 16:02                                                                           ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:49                                                                         ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 15:55                                                                           ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 16:02                                                                             ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 15:36                                                                       ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:58                                                                         ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 14:03                                                                   ` Alex Efros
2007-09-17  7:56                                                                   ` Gerrit Pape
2007-09-17  9:07                                                                     ` Radek Podgorny
2007-09-17 11:59                                                                     ` Alex Efros
2007-09-18  8:14                                                                       ` Gerrit Pape
2007-09-18 11:33                                                                         ` Alex Efros
2007-09-18 11:45                                                                         ` Laurent Bercot
2011-02-15 13:12                                                                         ` [LONG] " Laurent Bercot
2011-02-15 15:00                                                                           ` Alex Efros
2011-02-15 15:22                                                                             ` Laurent Bercot
2007-09-12 16:04                                                   ` Radek Podgorny
     [not found]                                                   ` <35517.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189613042.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-12 17:04                                                     ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:38                                                       ` Mike Buland
2007-09-12 20:28                                                         ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 20:38                                                           ` Alex Efros
2007-09-13  1:05                                                           ` Mike Buland
2007-09-13  8:58                                                       ` Radek Podgorny
     [not found]                                                       ` <50411.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189673890.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-13 10:57                                                         ` Alex Efros
2007-09-13 12:06                                                           ` Alex Efros
2007-09-13 14:31                                                           ` Radek Podgorny
     [not found]                                                           ` <51910.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189693860.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-13 14:51                                                             ` Alex Efros
2007-07-16  2:24                                   ` George Georgalis
2007-07-01  8:43                   ` Radek Podgorny
2007-07-02  8:28                     ` Gerrit Pape
2007-07-02 11:23                       ` Radek Podgorny
2007-07-02 12:14                         ` Gerrit Pape
2007-07-02 12:42                           ` Radek Podgorny
2007-07-07  4:54                       ` Alex Efros
2007-06-20 19:57                 ` Charlie Brady
2008-02-25  7:25 ` Alex Efros
2008-02-25 14:57   ` Charlie Brady
2008-02-25 15:23     ` Radek Podgorny
     [not found]     ` <59012.::ffff:77.75.72.226.1203952988.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2008-02-25 15:26       ` George Georgalis
2008-02-25 15:32       ` Charlie Brady
2008-02-25 16:17         ` Alex Efros
2008-02-25 17:20       ` Mike Buland
2008-02-25 15:27   ` Radek Podgorny
     [not found]   ` <34616.::ffff:77.75.72.226.1203953244.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2008-02-25 16:15     ` Alex Efros
2008-02-27  8:19   ` Bernhard Graf
2008-02-27  8:36     ` Alex Efros
2008-02-27  8:58       ` Bernhard Graf
     [not found] ` <F694D808C0BB4890A12C565F68B9A691@home.internal>
2008-02-25 16:24   ` rehan khan
2008-02-25 16:27     ` Charlie Brady
     [not found]     ` <54B6D6D6D32D4DB685F8CA9A836076D7@home.internal>
2008-02-25 17:11       ` rehan khan
2008-02-25 19:13     ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2008-10-21 21:46 ` Alex Efros

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