Re: [MiNT] tfork() bug.

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:53:57 , Ole <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:
>  Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2012, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Peter Slegg
>  <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
>
> > The details of this are outside my area but could it be related to
> > the issues I saw in Samba and Jo Even saw ?
>
>  No, definitely not. tfork is an exotic function - I only found one
>  other OS that has that function available for forking threads.
>
>  About Samba:
>  each of the process which is started by samba is for an different
>  purpose. Just a sidenote. I first thought that samba spawns an process
>  for each connection - but it is not that way - eac process has it's own
>  purpose.
>
>  Greets,
>  Ole

I thought it was a long shot but worth mentioning.

I think the samba problem is that the processes are not being killed
even by by 'killproc smbd'.

Regards,

Peter