Re: nessusd defunct procs fix

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:41:11 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:20:25AM -0400, Jeff Murphy wrote:
> under load, we've seen nessusd leave a number of defunct processes.
> we're proposing that wait_for_children() in pluginlaunch.c be changed
> from:

That's a good idea. However, I'd prefer to change it to multiple calls
to waitpid(), just in case more than one child exits.

I'll commit such a change in the 2.1.x tree.



				-- Renaud
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