Re: rcs configure hang

[Kelly Wang (kellythw)]

Hi Paul,

When strace hang, I do 'ps -elf | grep strace' from other terminal and do kill 
-9 <process id from ps -elf>
kill -s INT $(ps -o pid= -C a.out) looks like not working from my server.

% kill -s INT $(ps -o pid= -C a.out)
Illegal variable name.

Thanks,
Kelly
 
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On 11/5/20, 1:36 PM, "Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

    On 11/5/20 1:18 PM, Kelly Wang (kellythw) wrote:
    > With the conftest.c you provided, strace still hang.
    > Check for how many calls for chdir("confdir3"), it only has 110 times, 
then hang after mkdir("confdir3", 0700 ...
    > Is there any directory limitation that can make on a server?

    Wow, that's a more-serious kernel (or filesystem) bug than I thought: the 
mkdir 
    system call is hanging and does not appear to be interruptible via SIGALRM.

    When the program hangs, how do you terminate it? Do you use Control-C from 
a 
    terminal? If so, what happens if you instead use 'kill'? Something like 
this:

    rm -fr conftest3
    gcc conftest.c
    strace -o tr ./a.out &
    sleep 1
    kill -s INT $(ps -o pid= -C a.out)

    That last line should send the SIGINT signal to the a.out command; does 
this 
    cause a.out to exit? (You can look at 'tr' to see.) If it exits, perhaps we 
can 
    modify conftest3 to do the same thing to itself when it is running on a 
buggy 
    kernel.

    Also, what happens if you do the same recipe as above, but use 'ALRM' 
rather 
    than 'INT'? Again, look at the end of 'tr'.