Well, I tried 2.7.2, and although it seemed to last a little longer, this morning I wake up, and it didn't help. Any other ideas? Would wiping the system clean and trying again help?
-Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grendel wrote: > > * Ben Collins said: > [snip] > > > by using waitpid or wait4) the child process will go zombie (<defunct>). > > > If > > > the application is coded properly and it still happens, it might mean that > > > the kernel fails to deliver the SIGCHLD signal to the parent for some > > > reason. It might be caused by the kernel compiled with 2.95.x gcc. > > > Generally, it's safer to use gcc 2.7.2.3 to compile your kernels. > > > > That would be true except this is sparc, and 2.7.2.3 can create some buggy > > code for sparcs. > I don't know much about sparcs & Linux, I just remember having a similar > problem on x86 with a kernel compiled using 2.95.1 (AFAIR) that optimized > the kernel code so much, it failed to deliver some signals. Situation was > pretty much the same. > > marek > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature