It looks like we still have problems with the `subprocess' implementation that cooperates with places.
Does your program use multiple places, or just one? If it uses multiple places, does it use `subprocess' in multiple places? Is your platform 32-bit Linux? At Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:38:23 +0200, Tobias Hammer wrote: > Hi, > > i am experiencing random crashes when using subprocess followed by a > subprocess-wait. My test program, that i call via subprocess is special, > in that it kills itself very fast with a sigkill after executing. > > Unfortunately, i wasn't able to reproduce this behavior in a small sample > but i could record three different core dumps with full debug info > (attached). > I tested with my own build of git head and 5.3.0.21. > > All crashes/freezes are preceded by the message > "unexpected error from waitpid(138321448[1]): 10" > with a completely invalid pid argument to waitpid. The errno 10 > is "No child processes". > > What follows this message are random freezes (ctrl+c has no effect), > heap corruptions or segfaults. > > I hope the supplied information is enough to locate whatever goes wrong, > otherwise i can, of course send in more. > > Tobias _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev