Wietse Venema:
> Just for the heck of it, can you replace in src/master/master_sig.c
> this code:
>
> if (kill(pid, SIGKILL) < 0)
> msg_fatal("%s: kill myself: %m", myname);
>
> With this code:
>
> exit(0);
>
> And see if that fixes the PID=1 behavior?
Viktor Dukhovni:
> Perhaps instead of "exit(0)" it should be "_exit(0)",
> since exit(3) is not async-signal-safe.
According to RTFM, the exit() function does not return so it can't 'fail'.
FreeBSD:
The exit() and _Exit() functions never return.
The _exit() system call can never return.
Linux:
The exit() function does not return.
(Similar text for _exit and_Exit).
Wietse
