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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:30:07 GMT
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: threads/78660: Java hangs unkillably in STOP state after fork()
Message-ID:  <200503101530.j2AFU7lf058491@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR threads/78660; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To: Thomas Lange <thomas.lange@techunity.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, <freebsd-threads@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: threads/78660: Java hangs unkillably in STOP state after fork()
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:28:43 -0500 (EST)

 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.
 
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 DE
 


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