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Date:      Sun, 8 Dec 2019 22:08:22 +0100
From:      Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r355097 - in head: sys/kern tests/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <CAGOYWV_1UxFEr%2BmyJUEXRXPVwWf=fgM3w3%2BJ6s9uX7QiFfL7sA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 18:55, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/25/19 10:33 AM, Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
> > Author: oshogbo
> > Date: Mon Nov 25 18:33:21 2019
> > New Revision: 355097
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355097
> >
> > Log:
> >   procdesc: allow to collect status through wait(1) if process is traced
> >
> >   The debugger like truss(1) depends on the wait(2) syscall. This syscall
> >   waits for ALL children. When it is waiting for ALL child's the children
> >   created by process descriptors are not returned. This behavior was
> >   introduced because we want to implement libraries which may pdfork(1).
> >
> >   The behavior of process descriptor brakes truss(1) because it will
> >   not be able to collect the status of processes with process descriptors.
> >
> >   To address this problem the status is returned to parent when the
> >   child is traced. While the process is traced the debugger is the new parent.
> >   In case the original parent and debugger are the same process it means the
> >   debugger explicitly used pdfork() to create the child. In that case the debugger
> >   should be using kqueue()/pdwait() instead of wait().
> >
> >   Add test case to verify that. The test case was implemented by markj@.
>
> Does this fix PR 201276?
>
> Also, what about PRs 220324 and 232679?
Unfortunately, only partially. I still looking at some issues.



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