Re: [Fwd: Re: [Evolution-hackers] Question about defunc processes produced by libsoup on Solaris]

[Alex Jiang <alex jiang sun com>]

Thanks a lot.

If what u said is true. (I mean application is counting on wait()), then
race condition may also happen when in the wait loop.

So, the wait-loop patch is never a elegant or good one.

Best wishes

>It's not a solaris vs linux thing.
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>The patch you submitted makes soup try to clean up *all* zombies when an
>ssl proxy exits. That's inappropriate behavior for a library. Some of
>those zombies may have been created by the application, or by other
>libraries, which may be planning to wait() on them later to find their
>exit status.
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>The bug here is that soup_ssl_hup_waitpid is not being called for every
>ssl connection for some reasonOn Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:39, Alex Jiang
>wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>Could u give more detailed explaination of why so called "zombies" are
>>meaningful for soap?
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>>I've never viewed the source of libsoap or used libsoup before.
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>>But why zombies may happen in sol we should call wait to release them,
>>while not in linux?
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>It's not a solaris vs linux thing.
>
>The patch you submitted makes soup try to clean up *all* zombies when an
>ssl proxy exits. That's inappropriate behavior for a library. Some of
>those zombies may have been created by the application, or by other
>libraries, which may be planning to wait() on them later to find their
>exit status.
>
>The bug here is that soup_ssl_hup_waitpid is not being called for every
>closed ssl connection for some reason, and that's what needs to be
>fixed.
>
>-- Dan
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