To start with, use the carrage return and don't send html. This sounds like a problem that was fixed a few months ago. You might try searching archives. Upgrade to current (2.5.5) or the CVS tree.
And please send any changes as diff -u against up-to-date CVS (see diff(1) and patch(1)) encoded as text/plain or flat ascii. With what you sent it is unclear what you changed and requires much work to apply changes. On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 05:12:32PM -0700, David R. Staples wrote: (reformatted) > I believe I have found the cause of the unexplained error > (code ??) at main.c(line #). In the version I'm running > 2.5.2 (obtained from the Free Software Foundation) the line > number is 576. It appears the root cause is related to a > race condition associated with the termination of child > processes. > > If the signal handler for SIGCHILD is executed, as the > result of a child termination, before the wait_process > procedure is executed, the status of pid (as passed to > wait_process) will not be available and the waitpid call in > wait_process will fail with an ECHILD error. If however, > wait_process executes first, it will successfully obtain the > exit status of pid and the sigchld_handler can execute, to > eliminate zombies, with no adverse affects. Since signal > handlers execute asynchronously there is no way to predict > when, if at all, a process will encounter this problem. > > I am providing below proposed new code that should resolve > the problem. Certainly I can make these changes within my > own environment, but since I would like to remain consistent > with the rsync project, I would like to here from someone > regarding incorporation of these changes into rsync or an > alternative (official) method to fixing this problem. I can > be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sincerely, > David R. Staples > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Proposed new code in main.c [snip] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
