Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > > b) exit after all children have done only.
> > >
> > > In the current implementation newsyslog(8) forks and execs gzip(1) or
> > > bzip2(1) and exits immediately. If a log file(s) is big enough the
> > > compress_log() process(es) will work after newsyslog's death and
On 01:04-0700, May 2, 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > > [ ... patch to wait for children, but do nothing with the result ... ]
> > >
> > > Why not just set the signal handler for the child process
> > > termination to "ignore", so that the child processes do
> > > not beco
Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > [ ... patch to wait for children, but do nothing with the result ... ]
> >
> > Why not just set the signal handler for the child process
> > termination to "ignore", so that the child processes do
> > not become zombied in the first place, so it's not ever
> > necessary
Terry,
On 23:11-0700, May 1, 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Maxim Konovalov wrote:
>
> [ ... patch to wait for children, but do nothing with the result ... ]
>
> Yes.
>
> Why not just set the signal handler for the child process
> termination to "ignore", so that the child processes do
> not beco
Maxim Konovalov wrote:
[ ... patch to wait for children, but do nothing with the result ... ]
Yes.
Why not just set the signal handler for the child process
termination to "ignore", so that the child processes do
not become zombied in the first place, so it's not ever
necessary to do a useless
Maxim Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone object to the next patch:
while (wait(NULL) > 0 || errno == EINTR)
/* nothing */ ;
DES
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Does anyone object to the next patch:
Index: newsyslog.c
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -r1.41 newsyslog.c
--- newsyslog.c 10 Apr 2002 10:38:44 - 1.41
+++ news
