Oooop, the algorithm is not periodic, but is used whenever the user clicks connect and disconnect. Other operations can also be included.
On 04/09/2015, Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote: > A periodic algorithm is now implemented in the frontend to search for > backend and any spawned children for ownership by root. This most > probably was what was causing waitpid and wait to fail to reap > zombies. If the algorithm find a root process parented by the > frontend, it will disable 'connect' and 'disconnect' until the process > dies. This prevents against having multiple threads initiated by > impatient users. > > The next step is semi/automatic wifi connection. > > > Edward > > On 04/09/2015, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: >> Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> For the last days I have been struggling to reap zombies adopted by >>> the frontend with only failures. >> >> The frontend doesn't adopt zombies. Only init ever does that. >> >>> I tried several methods using wait(-1), waidpid and trapping the >>> signal when a child dies without ever succeeding to reap zombies. This >>> means, I will stop and will leave the issue open to anyone who can >>> find a working solution. >> >> The 'zombie reaping' needs to happen in the parent process. This means >> the backend has to care for any processes it starts via fork. And the >> frontend has to care for the backend. You can get a tree view of >> processes via ps f, eg, >> >> ps fx >> >> to show all processed running under you current uid. >> >> [...] >> >> >>> initialization >>> >>> sa.sa_handler := @handle_sigchld; >> >> Insofar the documentation goes, you should be able to replace this with >> >> sa.sa_handler := SIG_IGN; >> >> this means now direct backend processes will ever be zombified. As the >> backend is written in C, a single >> >> signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); >> >> will take care of all processes spawned by the backend. >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >> > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng