[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#721932: dbus: fd.o #68945: infinite busy-loop (100% CPU) if waitpid() is interrupted

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Sep 5 15:40:46 UTC 2013


Package: dbus
Version: 1.6.12-1
Severity: important
Tags: fixed-upstream pending
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68945

dbus-daemon, and possibly other processes using libdbus, can be put into
an infinite busy-loop by receiving EINTR from a waitpid() call while
spawning a subprocess. Filing this as 'important' for now since it seems
to be somewhat rare, but I might bump it up to 'serious' if it's common.

    S



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