From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 15 14:53:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14044 for current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14035 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA00493 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:53:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA21660; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:52:03 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970415235203.FV35411@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:52:03 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch to kern_fork.c References: <199704141640.LAA01488@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704141640.LAA01488@dyson.iquest.net>; from John Dyson on Apr 14, 1997 11:40:01 -0500 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Dyson wrote: > Thanks -- now I have to figure out how to reproduce it. :-). I don't > normally run XDM, so off I go to experiment. If you've got X available at all, all i needed to do was running xrdb (so the cpp got called). This happened from xdm itself, as well as (after killing xdm's xrdb run off) from my ~/.xsession. I think just writing a test case doing 1000 popen()'s gets you a good chance of triggering the problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)