http://www.slony.info/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160

--- Comment #2 from Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> 2010-10-29 14:58:28 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=68)
 --> (http://www.slony.info/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=68) [details]
> Proposed patch
> 
> Proposed patch for bug #160.
> 
> How do we feel about having the watchdog slon bail if it gets unexpected
> results 
> from wait?  Are there other situations where wait will return a -1 pid and we 
> would still recover later?
> 
> Do we want to try and kill the worker slon in this case or not?

It's been signalled, and we don't really know why...  That bodes badly for the
slon.

That seems a rather deranged condition to get into; if threads are not shutting
down properly, that seems like an excellent case for right well shutting the
slon down, as opposed to trying to survive.

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