no wait exec scripts end up as defunct zombie process

[Sajeewa Warnakulasuriya]

Also I found the below snippet of code in exec.c

 	/*
          *      We're not waiting, exit, and ignore any child's status.
          */
         if (!exec_wait) {
                 return 0;
         }

When does freeradius close the child?


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On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Alan DeKok wrote:

> Sajeewa Warnakulasuriya wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know the issue  no wait exec scripts end up as defunct zombie process
>> was covered previously and appears to have been resolved after version
>> 1.1(?) but the issue still appears to happening in the latest freeradius.
>>
>> Has anybody else noticed this?
>
>  Nope.  It does a waitpid() every time it processes a packet.
>
>  The only situation where it takes a bit of time to do a waitpid() is
> if ALL of the child threads are blocked for many seconds.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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