Re: Growing number of kismet_client processes?

[pedro la peu]

> For now, try to disable the sound. It seems that kismet_client tends
> to fork amok when sound is enabled.

If you set sound=true but "soundplay=" points to a non-existing file, 
execve(2) fails (ENOENT) and the forked child does not get harvested.

I have a better fix for when (if) a new -stable is released.

--- kismet_client.cc.orig       Tue Aug 16 02:22:51 2005
+++ kismet_client.cc    Sat Feb 18 17:01:55 2006
@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@
                 dup2(nulfd, 2);

                 char * const echoarg[] = { plr, snd, NULL };
-                execve(echoarg[0], echoarg, NULL);
+                if (execve(echoarg[0], echoarg, NULL) < 0)
+                   exit(1);
             }
         }