On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Scott Bronson wrote:
I posted a patch that fixed this a few weeks ago. No reply.
It appears to me that Fetchmail leaves zombies lying around
only when the child MDA exits with a nonzero result code or
signal.
The entire sig handling code in fetchmail is very fragile, so touching it
requires a lot of time to analyse the codepaths...
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