Bug 111793 - perl5.8.0 has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
Summary: perl5.8.0 has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 9
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-12-10 05:14 UTC by Seng Oon
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:00 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ALL
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-11-10 21:16:37 UTC
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Description Seng Oon 2003-12-10 05:14:18 UTC 
Description of problem:
My system report this every hours:
Dec 10 13:01:01 NS1 kernel: application bug: perl5.8.0(25092) has 
SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
Dec 10 13:01:01 NS1 kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). 
Workaround activated.

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Comment 1 Endre Nagy 2004-02-14 18:31:16 UTC 
Reproducible with current openwebmail:
/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-tool.pl -n -a -q
^C

The result will be in /var/log/messages.
Comment 2 Charlie Brady 2005-05-19 17:54:10 UTC 
This is a duplicate of 117333, which has been closed notabug (bug is reportedly
in openwebmail-tool.pl).
Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-10 21:16:37 UTC 
Sorry for the long delay in processing this bug -
it is fixed in all current Red Hat perl releases.
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