Re: Deadlock involving truss -f, pdfork() and wait4()

From: Mark Johnston <markj_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:37:18 -0400
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 02:12:56PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> This gets me a little further but now the wait4 call by the parent
> never reaps the child and instead blocks forever:

Does it perform a wildcarded wait(), or does it explicitly specify the
PID of the child?  By design, the former will not return children
created by pdfork().
Received on Fri Sep 13 2019 - 16:37:23 UTC

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