rfork problem

[David Schultz]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
> 
> Combining flags RFNOWAIT and RFPPWAIT in rfork(2) under 4.6-RELEASE 
> makes the parent process sleeping on channel "ppwait" forever.

RFPPWAIT tells rfork() to wait for the child to exit, and RFNOWAIT
tells rfork() to detach the child such that it never tells the
parent when it exits.  So you're getting exactly what you asked
for, as silly as it may be.