Bug#531078: socat: execs children with SIGCHLD ignored

2009-06-01 Thread Martin Dorey
Thanks, that's very gracious. Today we tripped over a real symptom of this problem. When running via socat: mart...@mercury1-a:~$ sudo dpkg -i ~/software.jessies.org/work/evergreen/.generated/amd64_Linux/bin/org.jes sies.evergreen_5.204.2884_amd64.deb dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:

Bug#531078: socat: execs children with SIGCHLD ignored

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas Seyrat
tags 531078 + upstream confirmed thanks Hi Martin, Please find below the answer from socat's upstream author: > Hi Thomas, > > I think that Martin is quite right. Probably I intended to restore > sigchld to the default before exec'ing, but took ignore instead. I > will correct this in the

Bug#531078: socat: execs children with SIGCHLD ignored

2009-05-29 Thread Martin Dorey
Package: socat Version: 1.4.3.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I don't currently know that I'm experiencing any symptom of this, other than a warning generated by what I'm told is an obsolete warning flag to Perl. mart...@whitewater:~$ perl -we 0 mart...@whitewater:~$ socat - EXEC:'perl -we 0' Ca