Anton Vodonosov <avodono...@yandex.ru> writes: > Hello. > > Does ECL ever fork itself? > > I am asking because when running cl-test-grid tests > we are observing ECL hanging during cl-6502 testsuite. > > According to the logs, test-grid-agent kills the ECL process, > but nevertheless we sometimes find an ECL process remaining in the system. > > I have tested the process kill functionality on the system > where the problem happens, and process killing works. > > During further investigation I monitored system processes > while runnign cl-6502 suite, and once saw two ECL processes, > with equal command lines. And one of the process was a child of > the another. > >>From this I came to an assumption that when cl-test-grid-agent > starts ECL to run the testsuite, ECL forks itself and the child process > hangs. Then test-grid-agent kills the ECL parent process, but the > child remains in the system. > > Can it be true?
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