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Summary: xargs delays reaping children
Project: findutils
Submitted by: jay
Submitted on: Saturday 01/05/2008 at 15:24
Category: xargs
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: jay
Originator Name: Marc Aurele La France
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.2.31
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
xargs only reaps a child when max_procs children remain unreaped or fork
fails. If max_procs is large, this means that many zombies will be left
hanging around. This is especially a problem if data arrives on stdin only
slowly (since this delays the next fork).
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