This is a repeat of a prior unresolved situation. During the full regression suite, subtest t5562.8 (fetch gzipped empty) appears to have hung on the NonStop port. The code was in a loop repeatedly calling waitpid here in git-http-backend: waitpid + 0x320 (SLr) $n_EnterPriv + 0x280 (Milli) cleanup_children + 0x250 (UCr) cleanup_children_on_exit + 0x30 (UCr) git_atexit_dispatch + 0xB0 (UCr) __process_atexit_functions + 0xA0 (DLL zcredll) CRE_TERMINATOR_ + 0xB50 (DLL zcredll) exit + 0x2A0 (DLL zcrtldll) die_webcgi + 0xA0 (UCr) die_errno + 0x150 (UCr) write_or_die + 0xC0 (UCr) end_headers + 0x70 (UCr) die_webcgi + 0x160 (UCr) die + 0x120 (UCr) inflate_request + 0x3D0 (UCr) run_service + 0x540 (UCr) service_rpc + 0x1F0 (UCr) cmd_main + 0x3B0 (UCr) main + 0x120 (UCr) _MAIN + 0x80 (UCr) I do not see any relevant diff between rc0 and rc1 that could account for this. I also experienced this hang during 2.28.0 testing and in earlier releases transiently. 2.21.0 had this hang also. I have noticed a number of reports of this subtest hanging on different platforms. It looks like the situation is here: while (waitpid(p->pid, NULL, 0) < 0 && errno == EINTR) ; /* spin waiting for process exit or error */ It is possible that, without kernel threads, the child never terminates (or is waiting on a deferred signal that is not being delivered). If both git and git-http-backend are in cleanup_children at the same time, it is possible that neither will terminate, if git-http-backend has a child that is waiting on something else - apparent from this trace. Sincerely, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000 UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 -- In my real life, I talk too much.