[stunnel-users] How do I kill stunnel?
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Wed Jun 25 17:03:16 CEST 2008
On 2008-06-25, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> I've got an application that starts stunnel using equivalent of
> a fork/exec. The stunnel process then appears to fork off
> multiple copies of itself.
>
> Before the application exits, it needs to stop stunnel. I send
> a SIGINT to the PID that was created using the fork, but only
> the first "master" copy terminates -- the master stunnel
> process doesn't terminate its children when it exits. So I end
> up with a bunch of "orphaned" stunnel processes. They're not
> zombies, they're process that are either in state R or S
> (runnable or sleeping).
What's really annoying is that one of those orphaned stunnel
processes is sucking up all the CPU it can (there are no active
connections).
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