On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 17:07, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> On 22 Jul 1999, Terje Malmedal wrote:
>
> > Bash on Linux seems to have problems starting subprocesses
> > occasionally, the following program fails randomly:
> > --------------------------
> > #!/bin/bash
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> The crashing application is a feature-rich scheduler tightly
> integrated with Oracle. It does not show this problem on on
> linux-2.0.35 with glibc-2.0.7 and 8 other Unix flavours.
>
> The scheduler crashes when it fork/execs two agents. These agents
> connect to the Oracle database by means of the BEQ-protocol (a helper
> process is fork/execed by the oracle OCI-library). The last fork()
> call returns the child pid to the parent but the child process never
> reaches the code after the fork. The child dumps core before that..
[snip]
> I am not sure if this is a glibc problem, a kernel problem or a
> combination. dmesg shows no related messages.
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