[1256] in Athena Bugs
(VS2) Version 6.0C: shutdown doesn't check error codes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Wed Oct 26 23:38:32 1988
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 88 23:38:07 EDT
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
[resend because of post-office bouncing...]
System type, version: (VS2) Version 6.0C
System name: dialup
What's wrong:
With a (nearly) full process table, the following happened on dialup:
# /etc/shutdown -r +3
Shutdown at 17:04 (in 3 minutes) [pid -1]
Note the [pid -1], the error return value from fork. Needless to say,
the shutdown did not occur.
What should have happened:
shutdown should have detected the error, and printed an error message
with perror() perhaps.
Mark Eichin
<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker''
