Deadlock involving truss -f, pdfork() and wait4()
Conrad Meyer
cem at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 13 18:56:02 UTC 2019
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:37 AM Mark Johnston <markj at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 02:12:56PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> > This gets me a little further but now the wait4 call by the parent
> > never reaps the child and instead blocks forever:
>
> Does it perform a wildcarded wait(), or does it explicitly specify the
> PID of the child? By design, the former will not return children
> created by pdfork().
Explicit PID:
https://people.freebsd.org/~rstone/pdfork.c
Best,
Conrad
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