[ECOS] ecosconfig does not terminate

[Gary Thomas]

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 05:10, Koeller, T. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been encountering a problem with the ecosconfig command line
> tool under Linux recently. I built and installed it on my Linux system
> (kernel 2.4.18, glibc 2.2.5, tcl/tk 8.3.4). The tool appears to work
> normally, but after finishing its task it does not exit and has to be
> aborted by hitting Control-C. The process list shows the following
> entries:
> 
>   440  ?  S    0:00 ecosconfig list
>   441  ?  Z    0:00 (ecosconfig <zombie>)
> 
> It seems that ecosconfig fails to properly collect the exit status of
> its child processes (or threads). When executing ecosconfig under
> GDB control, the problem does not show. I did not notice this
> behavior with any other program on my system so far.
> 
> Btw., ecosconfig is not the kind of program you would expect to use
> multi-threading, so I was quite surprised to find that it actually does.

Suffice it to say that we don't see this behaviour here :-)

Did you build 'ecosconfig' yourself?   What tools did you use?


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