Re: BUG: NTPL: waitpid() doesn't return?

[bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>]

[Added Ingo & NPTL list]

[Matthias reports that threads forking multiple programs and running waitpid
 on them has problems] 

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:15:19PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> > If they do not wait for a specific pid, the kernel is right. The kernel has
> > no way of knowing which process a specific waitpid is waiting for otherwise!
> > 
> Please check my original mail again. The thread _is_ waiting for a
> specific pid.

I can't reproduce this with 2.6.1, can you check if this works as intended
on your system? Should output:

Thread 0 Launched pid 10967
Thread 1 Launched pid 10971
Thread 1 waitpid for 10971 returned for 10971, status: 1
Thread 0 waitpid for 10967 returned for 10967, status: 3

This is with NPTL 0.60 (Debian Unstable).

./sleep program:

#!/bin/sh
sleep $1
exit $1

testcase.c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void unixDie(const char* what)
{
  perror(what);
  exit(1);
}
int s_counter;
void *func(void *p)
{
  pid_t pid;
  int status;
  int counter=s_counter++;

  pid=fork();
  if(pid<0)
    unixDie("doing fork");
  if(!pid) {
    char *arguments[]={"./sleep","",0};
    char str[10];
    sprintf(str,"%d",(int)p);
    arguments[1]=str;

    if(execve(arguments[0],arguments,0))
      unixDie("doing execve");
  }
  if(pid) {
    pid_t ret;
    printf("Thread %d Launched pid %d\n", counter, pid);
    ret=waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
    if(ret<0)
      unixDie("waitpid");

    printf("Thread %d waitpid for %d returned for %d, status: %d\n",counter, pid, ret, WEXITSTATUS(status));
  }

  return 0;
}


int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  pthread_t t1, t2;
  pthread_create(&t1, 0, func,(void*)3);
  sleep(1);
  pthread_create(&t2, 0, func,(void*)1);

  pthread_join(t2,0);
  pthread_join(t1,0);
  return 0;
}


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