Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I'm guessing the issue is nash just calls wait and doesn't check the
> > returned pid value, assuming it is the only child it forked returning.
> > Which is valid except when you are running as pid == 1.
> >   
>
> Hm, that's always a bug; a process can always have children it doesn't
> expect (think forking, and then the parent execs).

Not if the process already forked.

But yes, in general this is a major screwup.

	-hpa
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