Deadlock involving truss -f, pdfork() and wait4()

Mark Johnston markj at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 13 18:37:23 UTC 2019


On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 02:12:56PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> This gets me a little further but now the wait4 call by the parent
> never reaps the child and instead blocks forever:

Does it perform a wildcarded wait(), or does it explicitly specify the
PID of the child?  By design, the former will not return children
created by pdfork().


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