Re: svn commit: r237847 - head/usr.bin/killall

On 06/30/12 09:36, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> New Revision: 237847
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/237847
> 
> Log:
>   Once in a month, when the moon is full, killall mistakenly considers
>   living process as a zombie and refuses to kill it. The cause is that
>   the code masks ki_stat with SZOMB to compare with SZOMB, but ki_stat
>   is not a mask.
>   
>   Possibly reported by:	cperciva

For the archives: Judging by the frequency with which I was seeing killall
failing to send a signal and the fact I haven't seen it happen since I
applied this patch, I'm 99.9999% confident that this was indeed the bug I
was running into.

Hopefully everybody else is sending signals to specific pids rather than
using killall during log rotation like I am. :-)

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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