On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:16:05AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> With the new code, venus mounts /coda quite nicely and promptly.
> But, I see that the mounted process does not get wait4(2)ed for.
> 
> root   20547  0.0  2.1  1728 16672 p2  S     9:46AM    0:01.32 venus 
> root   20548  0.0  0.0     0     0 p2  ZW         -    0:00.00 (venus)
> 
> Perhaps in venus/worker.cc we could store the child pid in a global,
> and then in some periodic function call a new worker.cc:reapmount()
> function that does a wait4 for the child if non-zero, and clears it on
> successful wait.

Linux is using signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) which allows us to do nothing
at all. This does not seem to be a POSIX standard. Does BSD happen to
have this feature?

Jan