Subject: Re: apache2 worker MPM now zombie-free
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/20/2005 22:32:59
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Klos wrote:

> > ...as of devel/apr 0.9.6.2.0.54nb2.  I'm submitting a bugzilla report to
> > bugs.apache.org to get this fix into a future 2.0.x release (and 2.1).
>
> Thanks! What was the problem?

My first glance tells me that NetBSD isn't auto-reaping forked processes in
a threaded program when SIGCHLD == SIG_IGN.  (Spawning programs in threaded
code takes a different code path in apr than spawning programs in
non-threaded code.)

I don't know for sure if the auto-reap concept is supposed to work in NetBSD
anyway; it is SysV originated, I believe....

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