Re: [Exim] redirection process vanished unexpectedly

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Author: Nico Erfurth
Date:  
To: exim-users
CC: Przemyslaw Kowalczyk
Subject: Re: [Exim] redirection process vanished unexpectedly
Philip Hazel wrote:
>>Jan 20 23:18:26 spruce exim[98503]: redirection process 98515 vanished
>>unexpectedly
>
>>What can cause such line to appear?
>
>
> Prior to 4.12, this incident wasn't logged, so it might have been
> happening anyway.
>
> This is one of the most recurring problems that keeps coming back in
> Exim on different OS. The problem is in the handling of the termination
> of a child process. I thought I had fixed this particular case. The code
> reads:


You did, but it isn't in the official release, shortly after the 4.12
release Kirill Miazine reported this on OpenBSD, and you posted the
patch, it's located here

http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20021216/047496.html

ciao