Bug 84094 - ethereal has potential SIGCHLD handling bug
Summary: ethereal has potential SIGCHLD handling bug
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ethereal
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
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Blocks: 79578 CambridgeBlocker
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Reported: 2003-02-12 02:33 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-07-31 14:01:23 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2003-02-12 02:33:05 UTC 
ethereal sets the handler for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN, and then appears to wait for
its children. This won't work with current kernels.
Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2003-02-19 15:27:43 UTC 
Fixed.

Read ya, Phil
Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2003-02-28 19:15:35 UTC 
I'm getting:

application bug: ethereal(3489) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
(see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated.

with ethereal-0.9.8-5

what version has this fixed?
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-28 20:16:00 UTC 
0.9.8-6 should have it.
Comment 4 Joe Orton 2003-04-14 15:03:22 UTC 
I'm seeing this error in Shrike. ethereal-0.9.8-6, kernel 2.4.20-8smp.

application bug: ethereal(29130) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
(see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated.
Comment 5 Phil Knirsch 2003-07-31 13:05:44 UTC 
Thats really strange as the patch has been included in that package. Have you
tried the released ethereal errata version for Shrike? (ethereal-0.9.11-0.90.1)

Read ya, Phil
Comment 6 Chris Ricker 2003-07-31 13:58:38 UTC 
I haven't seen this on released RHL 9 or on the severn alphas / betas, and I run
ethereal a lot....
Comment 7 Phil Knirsch 2003-07-31 14:01:23 UTC 
OK, closing as fixed in current release then.

Thanks!

Read ya, Phil
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