Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

From: Magnus Naeslund\(f\) (mag@fbab.net)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 15:11:30 EST


From: "Marko Kreen" <marko@l-t.ee>
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:20:50AM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> > From: "Marko Kreen" <marko@l-t.ee>
> > > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> > > > When i do a "su - <user>" it just hangs.
> > > > When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the
child.
>
> > No i use redhat 6.2 (on a alpha system).
> > It works fine with 2.4.3, which i am running now ( i backed out 2.4.4 ).
>
> Could you try 2.4.5-pre1? If that too works then the problem
> quite possibly was indeed fork() child-first change. If not,
> well, then it gets interesting...
>

I can confirm that 2.4.5pre1 does NOT have this problem at all.
Now everything works as it should.
I'll run this until next stable, and will report any trouble.

> --
> marko

Magnus Naeslund

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