Logger Framework Conducive to Creating Zombie Processes When Syslog is Restarted

[Matt T. Proud]

Per a discussion with Colin Watson at UDS-Boston, 2007, we found an anomaly that occurs when the syslog server is restarted after its initial start in netcfg. It appeared to be a race-condition, as running the script through strace or attaching strace bypassed the waitpid.

It manifested itself as the postinst maintainer script for the netcfg udeb became a zombie, even though its children had moved on to a different process group and session.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Is this still relevant? It was reported 2 years ago. Thank you.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This shouldn't have been closed, or for that matter marked Incomplete - there's no evidence that the original race was ever fixed.