Currently dash does not reap dead children after built-in commands or functions. This means that if you construct a loop consisting of solely built-in commands and functions, then zombies can hang around indefinitely.
This patch fixes this by reaping when necessary after each built-in command and function. Reported-by: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c index 7498f9d..19e06ec 100644 --- a/src/eval.c +++ b/src/eval.c @@ -848,6 +848,8 @@ bail: goto out; } + jp = NULL; + /* Execute the command. */ switch (cmdentry.cmdtype) { default: @@ -856,7 +858,6 @@ bail: INTOFF; jp = makejob(cmd, 1); if (forkshell(jp, cmd, FORK_FG) != 0) { - status = waitforjob(jp); INTON; break; } @@ -875,22 +876,22 @@ bail: if (evalbltin(cmdentry.u.cmd, argc, argv, flags)) { if (exception == EXERROR && spclbltin <= 0) { FORCEINTON; - goto readstatus; + break; } raise: longjmp(handler->loc, 1); } - goto readstatus; + break; case CMDFUNCTION: poplocalvars(1); if (evalfun(cmdentry.u.func, argc, argv, flags)) goto raise; -readstatus: - status = exitstatus; break; } + status = waitforjob(jp); + out: if (cmd->ncmd.redirect) popredir(execcmd); diff --git a/src/jobs.c b/src/jobs.c index f0d34ab..1a97c54 100644 --- a/src/jobs.c +++ b/src/jobs.c @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ #include <termios.h> #undef CEOF /* syntax.h redefines this */ #endif +#include "eval.h" #include "redir.h" #include "show.h" #include "main.h" @@ -973,10 +974,11 @@ waitforjob(struct job *jp) { int st; - TRACE(("waitforjob(%%%d) called\n", jobno(jp))); - while (jp->state == JOBRUNNING) { + TRACE(("waitforjob(%%%d) called\n", jp ? jobno(jp) : 0)); + while ((jp && jp->state == JOBRUNNING) || gotsigchld) dowait(DOWAIT_BLOCK, jp); - } + if (!jp) + return exitstatus; st = getstatus(jp); #if JOBS if (jp->jobctl) { -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
