From cf1fee06a5e4b18b97f9b279694baae403d7289b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:48:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Odd.  I never brought this forward from bb.stable.  Should
 handle reaping child processes better.  -Erik

---
 init/init.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c
index bb1f383b3..91a19c5d1 100644
--- a/init/init.c
+++ b/init/init.c
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ extern int init_main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 		/* Wait for a child process to exit */
 		wpid = wait(&status);
-		if (wpid > 0) {
+		while (wpid > 0) {
 			/* Find out who died and clean up their corpse */
 			for (a = init_action_list; a; a = a->next) {
 				if (a->pid == wpid) {
@@ -1152,6 +1152,8 @@ extern int init_main(int argc, char **argv)
 							"Scheduling it for restart.\n", a->command, wpid);
 				}
 			}
+			/* see if anyone else is waiting to be reaped */
+			wpid = waitpid (-1, &status, WNOHANG);
 		}
 	}
 }