On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Oleg Derevenetz wrote: > Nicola Ranaldo wrote: > >I think master would check exit value of its childs and decrement the > >number > >of ready_workers. > > It seems like you perfectly right. I wrote a quick fix (i will be very > thankful if you check my fix and correct me if I am wrong) and it works > :-) Attachment contain this fix.
There is a more complete solution to the SIGCHILD problems in master, that fixes all the race conditions that cause the process count to be lost. I call it the "pid morgue" :-) It is in the bugzilla, and it is being used in production by the fastmail.fm people, AND all Debian users without a glitch for a long while now... You may want to have a look at that stuff... -- "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
