Ryan Bloom wrote:
> 2) I may be wrong, but I believe we have a race-condition. find_child_by_pid walks
>the
> scoreboard without locking it. Since we call that function from the parent whenever
>a child
> process dies, this looks like a chance for a seg fault, but I am still trying to
>figure out what I
> am missing. Rather than continue to look for my misunderstanding, can somebody
>explain it
> to me?
You are correct. If a process dies and ends up in the find_child_by_pid code at the
same time
that another neighboring process is exiting cleanly, there could be a seg-fault. I'll
fix
the patch appropriately.
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Paul J. Reder
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