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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > >
> > Are you saying waitpid() (wait4) *with a pid specified* can return another pid?
> > That definitely sounds like a bug.
>
> No.
>
> For the full context look back a couple of messages.
>
> 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.

OK, userspace error :)

	-hpa
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