[BusyBox] Init

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Sat Aug 24 07:15:03 UTC 2002


On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 12:54, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> > > Running thttpd on my embedded system, which uses Busybox for almost
> > > everything including init, I ran into trouble, when I had high traffic
> > > with a lot of CGI processing. As traffic increased, there were a lot of
> > > zombie processes with PPID 1. Looking at the source, I found, that
> > > there's no handler for SIGCHLD in init. Has this an particular reason ?
> > > All other init implementations i know have one. I added one and this
> > > problem vanished at once.
> > I figured out, that a simple signal (SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) does the same.
> 
> This is default.
> 
> > The above problem applies also for orphaned threads, which have PPID 1
> > too. 
> 
> Have tou this problem with development version busybox?
BusyBox v0.61.pre  (~ April / 2002)

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