The smbd_scavenger crashes with a core dump if its parent dies first

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Our QA organization is zealous in finding cores after tests.
>
> If the parent smbd dies before a signal is delivered telling the
> scavenger to die, it core dumps.
>
> However, the order in which signals are delivered is not controllable.
>
> If we were to call prctl(PR_SET_NAME, "smbd_scavenger", NULL, NULL,
> NULL) in the scavenger just after fork, this could help make shutdown
> deterministic and keep QA off my back!
>
> Or perhaps we should just use setproctitle, since that is already used
> in winbindd and would work on FreeBSD with no changes.
>
> Would a patch be welcome?

Well, I see that reinit_after_fork tries to do that if a comment is
passed in, which it is, at least in master.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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