From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 Description of problem: The shell_cmd function in shell_cmd.c does the following loop to wait for its command to terminate: while ((wait_pid = wait((int *) 0)) != -1 && wait_pid != child_pid) Having now the waitpid primitive, it would be safer to use it instead: waitpid(child_pid, (int *) 0, 0) otherwise an application linked with tcp_wrappers and needing to get the exit status of its children may fail because of that loop in shell_cmd, if /etc/hosts.allow is setup to fork a command for this application. That happened on our site with am-utils (amd and amq). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2.rpm How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. acces to many automount points 2. tell amd to unmount them with "amq -u" 3. repeat 1. end 2. Additional info:
*** Bug 157204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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This should be fixed in rawhide.