Petri Helin wrote: > Udo Richter wrote: >> I *think* that these are kill signals received by the child process. >> Which is strange, as the child does an exit immediately. (Unless you're >> somewhere between 1.5.1 and 1.5.3 - this changed in 1.5.4) >> >> 6 is SIGABRT, 11 is SIGSEGV and 9 is SIGKILL. > > I use version 1.5.6. I tested with my normal shutdown script and with a > script that just does an "exit 0". No difference there. Can the script > itself have any influence on the return value? Since 1.5.4, VDR forks into a child that does nothing but fork off a second child, and do an exit(0). The second child exec's the shutdown script: VDR +-- Child 1 -> exits +-- Child 2 -> runs shutdown That way the waitpid quickly returns, the second child becomes orphaned, and no process ends up being a zombie. Since the shutdown script runs orphaned, the return value of the script is not evaluated, nor does anyone wait for the script to terminate. Cheers, Udo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr