process hangs (was Re: [Twisted-Python] Re: [Twisted-commits] r11107 - Delete fundamentally broken test.)

[Dave Peticolas]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 21:37, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:21:41PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:52, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:39:14PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > This is on a Redhat 7.2 system using python2.3 and a newish version
> > > > of twisted. I don't know why the process seems to get lost, but it
> > > > would be nice if Twisted would at least notice the ECHILD and signal
> > > > process termination (or lost, or something).
> > > 
> > > What version of Twisted, exactly?  There's been some changes to the reaping
> > > code in recent releases (e.g. between 1.2.0 and 1.3.0), which might be
> > > relevant.
> > 
> > I believe it is 1.2.0.
> 
> Ok, then I think it's likely that 1.3.0 fixes your bug.  1.2.0 had a nasty
> hack in its child reaping that went away in 1.3.0.

Yes, I see the diff. That seems to have fixed it,
thanks for the info!

dave