Thread: connecttoserer() leading to SIGKILL

Originally Posted by cerr

Also i have downloaded and compiled strace onto my target platform but when i start it with ./strace ./prs I just get a bunch of information before it throws me back to the shell saying
getppid() = 20506
fork() = 20508
_exit(0) = ?
I assume this is cause my app is "forking"... how can i get the information from a forked process?

Looking at the strace documentation, it appears you need to pass a -f option.

Unless you're calling fork() deliberately, I'm not sure why you'd be seeing a fork. My crazy guess is that gethostbyname() calls it.

(It's not as crazy as you might think... Once I was given the job of writing a new implementation of gethostbyname() that removed the runtime dependency on the dynamic C runtime (don't ask, it was something we needed to do) -- the way I implemented it was to fork and call "nslookup". Maybe these days the glibc people have done something similar?)