>Very wild guess, check the process signal mask of the child for both methods >of spawning.
I'm running ntpd through Python. How do I check the process signal mask? I did some quick searches and it seems Python does not support sigprocmask(). In my searches I came across this link: http://bugs.python.org/msg61870 I think you might be right that this is related to the signal mask. In my scenario the select call is hanging indefinitely, just like discussed in this article. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"