Ticket #3600 (new defect)

Opened 13 months ago

cat process created by sugar-datastore not reaped if it is killed

Reported by: quozl Owned by:
Priority: Low Milestone: Unspecified by Release Team
Component: untriaged Version: 0.95.x
Severity: Trivial Keywords:
Cc: Distribution/OS: OLPC
Bug Status: Unconfirmed

Description

The sugar-datastore process forks a process that runs /usr/bin/cat.

If this process is killed, it persists in the process table with a status of Z, indicating that the sugar-datastore process has not collected the termination status with wait(2) or waitpid(2).

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