Re: [Exim] Fedora complains about "application bug"

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Author: Tabor J. Wells
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To: Anand Buddhdev
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Fedora complains about "application bug"
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:23:39AM +0100,
Anand Buddhdev <arb@???> is thought to have said:

> I'm using exim 4.30 + exiscan on Fedora linux core 1. I'm seeing these
> in my log files:
>
> Feb 25 04:06:58 monet kernel: application bug: exim(21668) has SIGCHLD
> set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
> Feb 25 04:06:58 monet kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait').
> Workaround activated.
>
> I noticed that change 65 for exim 4.14 claims to have fixed this, but
> I wonder if the exiscan patch has introduced any code to cause this.
>
> Any comments Philip / Tom ?


This comes up frequently on the list (or at least it has since RH8 or RH9
was released). It is almost certainly a library you're linking to like libdb.

Perhaps it's time for a FAQ entry for this...

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Tabor J. Wells                                     twells@???
Fsck It!                 Just another victim of the ambient morality