NetBSD Problem Report #35227

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From: rillig@NetBSD.org
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Subject: /bin/sh does not clean up zombies under certain circumstances
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>Number:         35227
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /bin/sh does not clean up zombies under certain circumstances
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 10 13:35:00 +0000 2006
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue Apr 22 01:10:42 +0000 2008
>Originator:     Roland Illig
>Release:        3.0 or current, doesn't matter
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
After the execution of a backticks operator, the terminated child processes are not cleaned up under certain circumstances.


The following shell script creates 10 zombies, one per second.


>How-To-Repeat:




#!/bin/sh


set -eu


for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
        input=`cat /etc/hosts; sleep 1`


        # comment out the following lines to make the zombies go away.
        while read line; do
                :;
        done <<EOF
$input
EOF


        # uncomment the next line to make the zombies go away.
        #sleep 1
done




>Fix:


>Release-Note:


>Audit-Trail:
From: Roland Illig <rillig@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/35227 CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/bulk
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:59:31 +0000 (UTC)


 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	rillig
 Date:		Sun Dec 10 13:59:31 UTC 2006

 
 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/mk/bulk: printindex

 
 Log Message:
 Fixed the creating of numerous zombie processes, which is a bug in the
 NetBSD /bin/sh, reported in PR 35227.

 

 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.29 -r1.30 pkgsrc/mk/bulk/printindex

 
 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:59:49 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Is there any reason this still needs to be open?




From: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/35227
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:42:46 +0100


 Yes, this needs to be open, as other shell scripts may still trigger 
 this same bug. I had just fixed the script "using" the bug, not the bug 
 itself.

 
 Roland

 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:10:42 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
sorry, evidently I misread the commit message.




>Unformatted:

 

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