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dejagnu spawn & wait
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:48:46 -0500
- Subject: dejagnu spawn & wait
Hi -
Indeed, the "close;wait" is not a perfect solution to the zombie stap
problem. Systemtap catches SIGINT to cause an early exit, not
SIGTERM/SIGPIPE/etc, so dejagnu should send a SIGINT and wait a while
before the "close;wait".
By the way, I'm somewhat surprised that the zombie stap processes
should cause anything but an aesthetic problem. They should consume
no resources except perhaps dejagnu file descriptors.
- FChE