Bug 531235

Summary: Bash doesn't wait for backgrounded process if its PID is recycled
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: bashAssignee: Roman Rakus <rrakus>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.8CC: fnadge, ovasik, pm-eus, psplicha, rvokal, tao, tsmetana
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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OS: Linux   
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Previously, bash did not wait for a child process if the PID of this child process was recycled. In some ircumstances this caused "Resource temporarily unavailable" errors. With this update, bash recycles child process PIDs and waits for child processes as expected.
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Bug Depends On: 521134    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2009-10-27 13:03:28 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #521134 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Roman Rakus 2009-10-27 14:20:02 UTC
Fixed in bash-3.0-21.el4_8.1

Comment 6 Roman Rakus 2009-11-19 14:37:48 UTC
Should be fixed in bash-3.0-21.el4_8.2

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-11-23 11:55:19 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1599.html

Comment 10 Ondrej Vasik 2010-07-23 07:20:20 UTC
*** Bug 511032 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Florian Nadge 2011-01-03 09:36:33 UTC
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Previously, bash did not wait for a child process if the PID of this child process was recycled. In some ircumstances this caused "Resource temporarily unavailable" errors. With this update, bash recycles child process PIDs and waits for child processes as expected.