Viktor Dukhovni:
> > If I understand correctly, some buggy kernel reports WIFSTOPPED
> > events to the Postfix master daemon (the smtpd parent process)
> > instead of gdb (the smtpd tracing process).
>
> This is a plausible guess. Somehow by the time smtpd(8) really
> exited, master(8) had already removed it from the child process
> hash table, and a missing WIFSTOPPED() case is a somewhat plausible
> explanation.
>
> > What OS version are you using? Perhaps I can reproce that bug with
> > a small test program.
>
> The first test could be with Postfix, "smtpd -D" and debugger_command
> exactly as posted, to see whether we can reproduce at least the
> reported symptoms. Then onward with small programs, ...
Apparently, mine is not a buggy kernel. I do test this stuff
before posting. Nothing is signaled to the master daemon,
and all is signaled to gdb as expected.
Wietse
