[Bug runtime/3718] New: -c option runs a program but doesn't exit

[eteo at redhat dot com]

SystemTap has a -c option that runs a command/program and exits when it
finishes. But in some cases, unfortunately, it does not exit even though the
command/program has exited.

[eteo@kerndev profiler]$ stap -V
SystemTap translator/driver (version 0.5.10 built 2006-10-26)
(Using Red Hat elfutils 0.124 libraries.)
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Red Hat, Inc. and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
[eteo@kerndev profiler]$ /usr/bin/env stap -c gaim poll-select.stp 10000
Password:
libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
  (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files





(gaim has ended at this point. it just doesn't stop regardless how many ctrl+c I
used)
[1]+  Stopped                 ./profiler.sh -s poll-select.stp -d 10000 -c gaim
[eteo@kerndev profiler]$ killall -9 stap
[eteo@kerndev profiler]$ sudo killall -9 staprun
[eteo@kerndev profiler]$ ps aux | grep stap
eteo      7127  1.6  0.0      0     0 pts/6    Z    20:51   0:00 [stap] <defunct>
root      7249  0.0  0.0   1488   212 pts/6    D    20:51   0:00 /sbin/rmmod -w
stap_7127.ko
eteo      7256  0.0  0.0   3880   680 pts/6    R+   20:51   0:00 grep stap

poll-select.stp is a simple stp script that runs for 10000ms, and exit.

-- 
           Summary: -c option runs a program but doesn't exit
           Product: systemtap
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: runtime
        AssignedTo: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: eteo at redhat dot com


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3718

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