Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2174] daemonII crashing on linux

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting David Swasey (swasey@cs.cmu.edu):
> [from the discussion on the irc channel last night]
> 
> Continuum and pickled are probably crashing for different reasons.
> 
> Continuum's process table was full of zombies.  The server wasn't
> dealing with child processes the way SysV expects.  One source of this
> problem, update.c, was fixed by Dave Ahn (& I assume intergrated into
> continuum) last night.

The same problem existed in newstartd, but Dave fixed that as well. I believe
all the changes where integrated into CVS last night as well.

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