Rsync hang on HP-UX 10.20

[jw schultz]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:56:28AM -0600, xiaoqin_qiu at agilent.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank J.W. for your information.
> 
> The strange thing is child process is waiting for parent to kill it, in the meantime, the parent process is waiting for child process. 
> 
> Is this a bug or what? Is there a fix for this type of problem?
> 
> Thank you again for your help!
> 
> I ran the installation again and here are some trace outputs from parent process: 
> (4188 is child process ID. 
>  The trace output from child process is the same as my previous post except the process ID.)

We know the state it is in.  So traces once it is there are
useless.  The question is how did it get here.  What was the
return from kill()?  What is the signal mask?  Things like
that.