Re: zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-21 Thread Lars Eggert
Terry Lambert wrote: Linux has the SVR4 behaviour in that, if SIGCHLD is not caught, zombies are reaped automatically, without the parent needing to explicitly reap their exit status. Most likely, they are installing a signal handler of SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD, and expecting the standard behaviour f

Re: zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Lars Eggert wrote: > > >I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker > > >(http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a > > >long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it > > proxies. > > > > > >Under -current, it seems that the child processes beco

Re: zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-21 Thread Lars Eggert
Duncan, Duncan Barclay wrote: On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: >I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker >(http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a >long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it proxies. > >Under -current, it seems tha

Re: zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-02 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: > Duncan Barclay wrote: >> On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: >>> >>>I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker >>>(http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a >>>long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it

Re: zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-01 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker > (http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a > long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it proxies. > > Under -current, it seems that the child proce

Re: zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-01 Thread Lars Eggert
Duncan Barclay wrote: > On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: >> >>I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker >>(http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a >>long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it proxies. >> >>Under -current, it seems tha

zombies from linux binaries

2002-10-01 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker (http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it proxies. Under -current, it seems that the child processes become zombies, and the proxy stops working