Re: kern/59175: posix_spawn hang, hanging other process too

["Thomas Klausner via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59175; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/59175: posix_spawn hang, hanging other process too
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:08:34 +0100

 On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 01:23:53AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 > The attached program appears to reproduce the issue.
 > 
 > make waitrace
 > ./waitraice &
 > while :; do kill -INFO %1; sleep 1; done
 > 
 > At some point, it will stop printing numbers because it is stuck.
 
 Just to confirm, I ran this test just now and saw numbers go up to for
 a couple minutes then it stopped.
 I have a
 28394 wiz       23    5    11M 1484K CPU/1      13:37 99.17% 99.17% waitrace
 process now, and I guess a stuck zsh (but I have a couple zsh
 instances running, so I don't know which one is running the kill(1) loop).
  Thomas