The comment above the snippet causing the problem is dated Dec 27th
2002, so probably not.
The waitpid loop was probably added to correct a zombie accumulation
problem, but it had a more powerful effect than intended. It solved the
zombie issue, but also prevented multiple child spawning.
-- Nathan
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:04, Mark wrote:
> Does this bug exist in 2.43 too? If so, I have to recompile. :(
>
> - Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neulinger, Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:17 PM
> Subject: RE: [SAtalk] spamd only forking single child
>
>
> This change should fix it:
>
> Index: spamd.raw
> ==========================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/spamassassin/spamassassin/spamd/spamd.raw,v
> retrieving revision 1.159
> diff -u -r1.159 spamd.raw
> --- spamd.raw 1 Jan 2003 17:06:37 -0000 1.159
> +++ spamd.raw 6 Jan 2003 16:16:41 -0000
> @@ -988,7 +988,7 @@
> my $kid;
> do {
> $kid = waitpid(-1,&WNOHANG);
> - } until $kid == -1;
> + } while $kid > 0;
> }
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