mlcheckd error in dmesg

Matthew Galgoci mgalgoci@redhat.com
Fri May 21 00:53:00 GMT 2004


On 20 May 2004, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> I just checked dmesg in case there was anything related to our
> networking problems, and I saw many occurrences of this message:
> 
> application bug: mlcheckd(7926) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
> (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a perl problem or an mlcheckd problem, but I'm
> mentioning it in case somebody wants to fix it.

It's an nptl related message. It can safely be ignored for the time being, but
there is an application bug in mlcheckd.

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Matthew Galgoci
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