[yocto] Tcl SIGCHLD lost process error

[Valentina Skorpion]

               Hello everyone,

     I have been using yocto jethro in order to build my custom Linux distribution for several devices ( qemuarm , sama5d4, etc) . I have used the linux-yocto 4.1.5 kernel version and latest version packages. After upgrading to yocto krogoth I have used a newer version of linux kernel ( version 4.7.2 ) and newer version packages. I had some tcl scripts which worked fine before but now  the following error has been triggered: 
    error waiting for process to exit : child process lost is sigchld ignored or trapped? )

     This error is being triggered when tcl exec function is executed. Even simpler commands such as "exec ls" triggers the same error (the command is not executed).

     I have tried to reproduce the error on yocto krogoth with older versions of linux kernel. On linux-yocto 4.4 the same error appeared.  On linux-yocto 4.1.5 with some outdated packages (with older version, only Tcl had the same version in all test cases) the exec function runned fine (as I have mentioned before). To reproduce the error in this case, SIGCHLD had to be trapped outside tclsh (with trap command : trap "" CHLD), but even then, the command inside exec was executed and only after that the mentioned error was triggered (similar to this issue: http://www.rkeene.org/projects/tcl/tcl.fossil/info/2982713fffffffff ). 

     It seemed at a package (on which depends Tcl) traps or ignores the SIGCHLD.  After some research, a similar issue has been reported ( https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19861 ). In a newer glibc version, fork functionality could not use IFUNC resolver so it would trigger in tcl the SIGCHLD error. A patch has been applied to glib pt-fork.c ( https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=blobdiff;f=nptl/pt-fork.c;h=db9b61d9aa172c7886b6ed3decb355a3aa4c9036;hp=b65d6b4eddc0c17a39825a9cd30d0dc3fb5b141f;hb=f06f3f05b48c72e2c9b0fa78671f94fd22d67da8;hpb=7838d298d895f65247fb6b498db03a4336fc0506 ) in order to fix the issue and now works fine.


     Has somebody encountered this issue too? Has anyone used this patch to fix the problem or used another fix? Thanks!

          

    
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