tipidee-config: sporadic failures

From: Sertonix <sertonix_at_posteo.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:56:53 +0000

Hi,

I noticed some unreliability in tipidee-config. It sometimes fails with
this error:
        tipidee-config: fatal: unable to read from preprocessor: No child process

On Alpine edge this seems to be able to reproduce the issue relatively
quickly:
        echo > tipidee.conf
        while tipidee-config -i tipidee.conf -o tipidee.conf.cdb; do :; done

When running tipidee-config in strace it only happens very rarely so
I attached the strace I got.

A quick look makes it seem that the code tries to wait for a child after
it had already exited.

Received on Thu Jan 01 2026 - 01:56:53 CET

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