Re: Code questions...

[Lai Yiu Fai <ccyflai@uxmail.ust.hk>]

> 
>   I have a couple of questions/comments about the zmailer source (2.99.10),
> so if you have a minute or two....
> 
>   - I discovered that my scheduler zombie problem is related to the fact
> that a process is forked to handle mailq requests, but there isn't a
> designated wait call for it, it seems like it gets reaped purely by chance
> by waitandclose() (transport.c) whenever readfrom() is called.   Also,
> ipcpause()  (transport.c) doesn't appear to ever be called...  why?
> 

I have the same problem since 2.99.9, I simply add a designated wait() call
in parent process after forking the mailq handler.  It seems that the problem
is solved.

Rgds,
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