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From: Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>
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Subject: bin/14729: sysinstall doesn't reap zombies
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>Number:         14729
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       when sysinstall is running as init it should reap zombies but doesn't
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov  5 11:50:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tony Finch
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE-19990927 i386
>Organization:
Demon Internet Ltd.
>Environment:

FreeBSD-3.3-RELEASE install floppies

>Description:

While an FTP install was proceeding I switched to the emergency
holographic shell on ttyv3 in order to install some non-standard
software. I ran its GNU configure script which died partway through
because the process table filled. On investigation I found that the
process table was full of unreaped zombies with a ppid of 1.

>How-To-Repeat:

see above (the software was a hacked ssh, but I expect any configure
script would have these problems).

>Fix:
	
Well, I thought it would be because sysinstall's signal handling is
different from init's, but at least regarding SIGCHLD they are the
same: they both do nothing. So I don't know.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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