Implications of setting SIGCHLD in relation to NIFs

[Lukas Larsson]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:02 PM José Valim <jose.valim@REDACTED> wrote:

> I see, thanks Lukas!
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> Two follow up questions (please consider that I am not well versed in C):
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> 1. Is there another option we could use instead of waitpid, in case we try
> to patch upstream?
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I didn't read their code very thoroughly before and it seems like they call
waitpid with a given pid and not -1 as I assumed, so it may be that their
code is safe. I don't know of any better alternative.

2. Instead of ignoring, could Erlang install a handler that removes the
> zombie processes once invoked?
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We could, but if I remember correctly we would still have to do multiple
waitpid(-1) calls which could end up breaking exactly what tensorflow is
doing there, but maybe the WIFEXITED call takes care of that. It was a long
time since I had to figure out all of these things and I don't remember the
details of how all this works together on all platforms.


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