From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Dale Mellor <dale@rdmp.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shepherd does not recycle zombie processes
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 23:09:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871syow99z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478384577.31924.2.camel@rdmp.org> (Dale Mellor's message of "Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:22:57 +0000")
Hi Dale,
Dale Mellor <dale@rdmp.org> skribis:
> I'm running shepherd stand-alone in a Debian system. But I am seeing
> zombie processes which have been kicked off by shepherd, and they do not
> get re-spawned.
This may have to do with unreliable signal handling (SIGCHLD in this
case) in Guile:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2013-07/msg00004.html
shepherd.scm has a hack to mostly work around it, but it’s not always
sufficient as evidenced by occasionally failures of the respawn test:
http://bugs.gnu.org/23811
Does it frequently fail to respawn?
Ludo’.
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2016-11-05 22:22 Shepherd does not recycle zombie processes Dale Mellor
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2016-11-06 21:21 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2016-11-07 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-07 11:35 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2016-11-09 14:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-10 13:15 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2016-11-24 8:27 ` Dale Mellor
2016-11-24 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-06 22:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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