Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 07:14:19 -0700 (PDT) From: mvh@ix.netcom.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/18530: Linux emulator does not reap zombies by default Message-ID: <20000513141419.B119937B8FB@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 18530 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Linux emulator does not reap zombies by default >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat May 13 07:20:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike Harding >Release: 4.0-S >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD netcom1.netcom.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Wed May 10 12:35:26 PDT 2000 mvh@netcom1.netcom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MIKEIPF i386 >Description: Linux emulation does not reap zombies by default - Linux does. Various Linux binaries can then spew lots of zombies. While the right fix is to fix the binaries, this isn't always possible and makes advocacy hard. "Yeah it runs Linux binaries - oops the system crashed". There are some threads on this I found in deja news... >How-To-Repeat: Wordperfect is supposed to cause this problem. >Fix: Have the linux emulator ignore SIGCHLD by default, I think? >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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