Re: [Crash-utility] crash sometimes doesn't terminate, loops forever looking for a process that doesn't exist

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > I would be a little hesitant to get rid of the pc->pipe_pid at this point > in time. > > I can't seem to be able to reproduce it, but certainly there should > be an escape valve in output_commands_to_pid() to recognize it and bail > out.  But I presume that your piped command sequence actually worked, > and so it would be strange/unnecessary for setup_redirect() to do the > error(FATAL_RESTART, ...) that it currently does when output_commands_to_pid() > returns with a NULL? I am not sure either what happened exactly but as far as I can tell the piped command didn't really work since it terminated before reading anything from its stdin. I am not sure how to reproduce the problem and it may very well be symptomatic of a problem in our environment but I know it happened at least twice (cores available on demand). So I think error(FATAL_RESTART) is actually appropriate (or at least more appropriate than looping forever). Or do you think it's important to get the return value of the child before deciding what to do? > Anyway, my point is to try to keep the fix as simple as possible... Makes sense.