[PATCH] Fix bug 11175 - Lots of winbindd zombie processes on Solaris platform

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Mar 25 15:21:48 MDT 2015


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:17:41PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> the patch fixes the tests for me, it looks good.
> I can push in a bit.
> 
> Just one question:
> 
> If I got it right, when sigaction is not available,
> we don't support mutexes any more. Why not use the
> old signal method in that case?

'cos it leaves zombies. It not (IMHO) credible
that a platform has process shared mutexes but
doesn't support sigaction, so there's no harm
making the mutex code depend on sigaction.


More information about the samba-technical mailing list