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Bug #173
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cron fails to reap child processes, leaving zombie processes
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Closed
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Normal
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Start date:
2014-05-23
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% Done:
100%
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Description
Using cron's own SIGCHLD handler doesn't work well on Illumos for some reason, but I have not taken the time to investigate why. Simply not defining USE_SIGCHLD when building cron makes cron set the SIGCHLD handler to SIG_IGN, which is enough to fix the zombie issue.
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