On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jeremy Howard wrote: > >Still, I am seriously thinking about doing something to any unknown children > >master notices (with proper LOG_ERR logging, of course) because said > >children is messaging it. Such a thing (unknown children) can only happen > >if either the underlying OS is messed up, or if we have a bug or memory > >corruption in the linked list, AFAIK. > > > > > Actually this can happen. The CHLD signal handler can run before master > gets to process the child's message. We see this happen quite regularly > on a busy server.
Yeah, I just noticed we process signals first, and messages last. This needs some fixing... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
