Process.waitFor() may hang if subprocess has live descendants (lnx)

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:51, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> On the test, it might be best to leave out wakeupJeff for now. Even if we
> come up with a solution for the asynchronous close issues then I assume this
> test will need to change anyway because it runs commands that are highly
> platform dependent.
>

I prefer to leave in wakeupJeff, and not only because of the
toddler-parent-in-joke.  It demonstrates something I have been wondering
about for years, namely occasional non-reproducible Bad file descriptor
errors (because EINTR can happen at any time, and it is unspecified which
thread in a process is chosen to handle the signal).  You're right that more
test work is needed if this difficult problem is ever addressed.

Martin
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