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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is a zombie?
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 16:57:40 -0700
Organization: Me
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J Wunsch wrote:
] > Besides, the fix is so trivial it is beneath my level of interest
] > to pound it through the constipated send-pr pipe.
]
] Of course, i have to accept your argument that you are not interested
] in this -- but then, stop bitching about it being trivial and below
] Your Great Level of Inspiration.
I said "interest", not "inspiration".
And the primary reason it is below my level of interest is that
I am a software engineer, not a salesman, and I choose to spend
my free time engineering software, not selling my ideas to
historically unwilling buyers.
If there were some assurances (like no outstanding PR's over a
certain age) that the code would even be looked at, I *might*
be willing to tackle an implementation of SA_NOCLDWAIT.
Of course the problem is trivially solvable by making the
distinction between SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL instead, without
dragging in all of the overdesigned mass which happens to
include SA_NOCLDWAIT.
Cost/benefit analysis:
Positives
o working implementation with SA_NOCLDWAIT
Negatives
o SA_NOCLDWAIT is an implementation detail, since
a woking soloution does not require it
o My code reaps its children, so I never have the
problem in the first place
o I have to fight a battle to get the code integrated
because of the integration bottleneck
o Use of send-pr relocates, but does not eliminate,
the bottleneck
Conclusions
o It is below my level of interest to pursue a
soloution to this problem
Nothing personal. Feel free to provide evidence to change my
perception of the situation.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.