Commit 43189fd8 authored by knielsen@mysql.com's avatar knielsen@mysql.com

Fix a race on some platforms in mysql-test-run.pl, where it would sometimes

errorneously abort reporting failure to kill child processes, where in
reality the problem was merely that the child had become a zombie because
of missing waitpid() call.
parent 78bd6d93
...@@ -770,7 +770,15 @@ sub mtr_record_dead_children () { ...@@ -770,7 +770,15 @@ sub mtr_record_dead_children () {
} }
sub start_reap_all { sub start_reap_all {
$SIG{CHLD}= 'IGNORE'; # FIXME is this enough? # This causes terminating processes to not become zombies, avoiding
# the need for (or possibility of) explicit waitpid().
$SIG{CHLD}= 'IGNORE';
# On some platforms (Linux, QNX, OSX, ...) there is potential race
# here. If a process terminated before setting $SIG{CHLD} (but after
# any attempt to waitpid() it), it will still be a zombie. So we
# have to handle any such process here.
while(waitpid(-1, &WNOHANG) > 0) { };
} }
sub stop_reap_all { sub stop_reap_all {
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