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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2017-09-02 15:57:56 +0200
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2017-09-02 15:57:56 +0200
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Merge branch 'master' into staging
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diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 54bd9ca2fb..5001298ab3 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -456,6 +456,19 @@ in KNOWN-MOUNT-POINTS when it is stopped."
(delete-file #$%do-not-kill-file)))
(let wait ()
+ ;; Reap children, if any, so that we don't end up with
+ ;; zombies and enter an infinite loop.
+ (let reap-children ()
+ (define result
+ (false-if-exception
+ (waitpid WAIT_ANY (if (null? omitted-pids)
+ 0
+ WNOHANG))))
+
+ (when (and (pair? result)
+ (not (zero? (car result))))
+ (reap-children)))
+
(let ((pids (processes)))
(unless (lset= = pids (cons 1 omitted-pids))
(format #t "waiting for process termination\