gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications

[David Xu]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/77818; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Se=E1n_C=2E_Farley=22?= <sean-freebsd at farley.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:37:15 +0800

 I have commited a fix to -CURRENT, don't know if it will fix the problem you
 have seen, but it is worth to try.
 
 David Xu
 
 Seán C. Farley wrote:
 
 > I finally compiled Zsh with debugging and got the following trace.  I
 > ran it by the following line:
 > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/libc SHELL=/bin/sh gdb /usr/local/bin/zsh
 >
 > Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
 > 0x281a9efb in sigsuspend () from /lib/libc.so.5
 > (gdb) where
 > #0  0x281a9cfb in sigsuspend () at sigsuspend.S:2
 > #1  0x280e07dc in signal_suspend (sig=20, sig2=2) at signals.c:367
 > #2  0x280b92e8 in waitforpid (pid=11195) at jobs.c:1120
 > #3  0x280a3dda in getoutput (cmd=0x8060e5c "uname -s", qt=1) at 
 > exec.c:2869
 > #4  0x280e2a0c in stringsubst (list=0xbfbfe7c0, node=0xbfbfe7d0, ssub=4,
 >     asssub=0) at subst.c:189
 > #5  0x280e2378 in prefork (list=0xbfbfe7c0, flags=6) at subst.c:74
 > #6  0x280a0886 in addvars (state=0xbfbfe880, pc=0xbfbfe7c0, export=0)
 >     at exec.c:1614
 > #7  0x2809ec5d in execsimple (state=0x1) at exec.c:802
 > #8  0x2809edb7 in execlist (state=0xbfbfe880, dont_change_job=0, 
 > exiting=0)
 >     at exec.c:855
 > #9  0x2809eb9a in execode (p=0x80608e0, dont_change_job=0, exiting=0)
 >     at exec.c:775
 > #10 0x280b3a8a in loop (toplevel=0, justonce=0) at init.c:165
 > #11 0x280b58b8 in source (s=0xbfbfe950 "/root/.zshenv") at init.c:1043
 > #12 0x280b5b1c in sourcehome (s=0x280f458d ".zshenv") at init.c:1088
 > #13 0x280b54e7 in run_init_scripts () at init.c:937
 > #14 0x280b63da in zsh_main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfeac0) at init.c:1262
 > #15 0x08048583 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfeac0) at ./main.c:93
 >
 > I hope this can help find the problem.
 >
 > Seán