While reviewing rad_fork, as part of an enhancement I’m
working on, I found something questionable. After the call to fork, it
tests if child_pid != 0 (to see if the parent is the process executing, I
presume). If true, then, the child_pid is added to the thread pool and
the thread pool mutex is unlocked. However, if the fork failed, -1 is
returned (and stored in child_pid), which I believe will then be added to the
thread pool (because -1 != 0 and there isn’t an explicit test for fork success/failure).
Shouldn’t there be a test for fork success (child_pid > 0) before
adding to the thread pool? Perhaps this isn’t a big deal because
fork probably doesn’t fail that often. But, it isn’t clear to
me what would happen in reap_children when it calls waitpid with -1 as this
tells waitpid to return status for any child.
Am I missing something? If not, and you want me to
submit a bug report with the minor code change, let me know..