[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Ignore lock held by zombie process. BZ 746004, 745281.

Zdenek Pavlas zpavlas at redhat.com
Mon Oct 17 15:34:03 UTC 2011


>  Where do we get zombies of extended lifetime (roll a d20 ;) from?

a mysterious, incurable virus has come..
 
>  How good/compat. is that info. from stat vs. taking the line from
> status?

Not sure, I'd prefer status too, but utils.get_process_info()
uses 'stat' to get the process status.

>  Also, at least put this behind a "locker_alive" API call or
>  something.

Is an option.. I'd then merge the 'kill(PID, 0)' into that.

What do you think of commit e177294f5094 ?  I think we should
revert that.  doLock() already handles this.

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Zdenek


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