Re: Proposed Patch for Zombies Left by Dpi_start_dpid() in dpi.c

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 08:44:47PM -0400, John Gaffney wrote:
> Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi Johannes, JG:
> >
> [...]
> >   The attached program is a stress test for SIGCHLD. The idea is to
> > find a formula that works well even in such cases. IIRC both of you
> > have access to BSD machines so please test it there.
> >
> >   The  program  spawns  255  children  which  sleep 5 seconds and
> > terminate generating a SIGCHLD avalanche, which should be handled
> > cleanly. It works OK in Debian.
> [...]
> 
> 1) OpenBSD is very strict about compliance with standards, so that,
>    whereas on my (and I believe most if not all) Linux systems wait.h
>    occurs redundantly in /usr/include/ and /usr/include/sys, on
>    OpenBSD wait.h is solely in /usr/include/sys and your code will not
>    compile unless the `#include<wait.h>' line is removed.  Then `gcc
>    -W -Wall' compiles it without complaint.
> 
> 2) OpenSBD is not so extravagant with the resources allocated to
>    unprivileged users (max 128 processes).  But spawning 64 rather
>    than 256 children the test is passed with the expected behavior on
>    OpenBSD 5.2 GENERIC.MP#368 amd64.
> 
> The OpenBSD 5.2 ports include Dillo 2.2 and FLTK2, but I just recently
> compiled FLTK 1.3.2 and Dillo 3.0.3 from their unmodified source on
> that machine without (IIRC) any errors.  If you were curious more
> generally to see how they are modifying the Dillo source, the OpenBSD
> patches for Dillo 3.0.3 (the version currently in ports for OpenBSD
> 5.3) may be found at
> 
>   http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/dillo/patches/

  Thanks a lot, very informative.

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-