Michael Ubell wrote:
> I have a program that forks a child, sleeps for a while
> and then kills the child and waits for it.
>
> On CentOs (4) the wait sometimes fails with a
> "No child" error. I have not seen this on any
> other system. This program has been
> running for years on Solaris, older Redhat distributions, etc.
> I would say the failure rate is about 1 in 10.
>
> I put a breakpoint on the error and forced the
> code to wait again. It works the second time.
>
> Is this a known bug?
>
not known as far as I can tell. Is there a test script that can
reproduce this issue ? is this on a specific Arch ?
can you file at http://bugs.centos.org/ - we can handle it there perhaps ?
- K
