Re: Possible bug in wait4(), 2.1.126-129 ?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 22 Nov 1998 19:32:39 -0500

In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811221540090.8065-100000@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>,
Io
n Badulescu writes:
+-----
| On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Greaves Tristan TM wrote:
| > I missed the original posting here - could someone please tell me what
| > the actual symptons are, as I suspect I know what may be causing the
| > problem.
|
| Basically, a perl script running another command using the backticks
| syntax (`foo`), from cron (this is important for some reason), ends up
| receiving ECHILD for the child's exit status.
+--->8

I've been seeing this in 2.0.35; I thought it was some kind of screwup in
our scripts (strange things sometimes happen when AFS is involved --- and
yes, it *does* have a token...). I haven't seen yet whether 2.0.36 does it
as well.

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