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List:       openldap-bugs
Subject:    Patch: Implement surrogate parent for back-shell  (ITS#1815)
From:       h.b.furuseth () usit ! uio ! no
Date:       2002-05-13 7:24:00
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Full_Name: Hallvard B. Furuseth
Version: HEAD (ca 2002-05-09)
OS: Linux
URL: http://folk.uio.no/hbf/OpenLDAP/surrogate.txt
Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.186.42)


A surrogate parent is supposed to keep back-shell children from
deadlocking due to resources locked by a threading parent.

Implementation note: The surrogate parent closes all unused file
descriptors, so it logs errors to stderr instead of via Debug() and
uses relloc() instead of ch_realloc().

Also close a file descriptor leak if fork() fails in fork.c.

Maybe this is unimportant, since I can't remember complaints about
back-shell hanging, but here it is if you want it.

I hope there isn't some "standard" way this is meant to be done,
because I did it my way.


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