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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:28:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas Lange <thomas.lange@techunity.de>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: threads/78660: Java hangs unkillably in STOP state after fork()
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0503101027440.12729-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <200503100622.j2A6MTZn066260@www.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD hellraiser.smega.com 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #2: Fri Feb 18 17:19:29 CET 2005     root@hellraiser.smega.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HELLRAISER-05-02-02  i386
>
> >Description:
> After many calls of Runtime.getRuntime().exec(), which starts an external process, Java hangs reproducably in a STOP state and cannot be killed. (Not even with kill -9)
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Run any Java application, which makes extensive use of Runtime.getRuntime().exec().
> With my application, I can reproduce the problem within an hour or so - on two different machines.
> >Fix:
> Apply David Xu's patch to kern_thread.c as described in
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-November/042407.html
>
> That change is also commited to 5.3-stable.

Why is this a PR?  It's fixed in both -stable and -current.

-- 
DE



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