--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2004/09/17 21:43:49 1.45 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2004/09/20 16:26:57 1.47 @@ -1310,3 +1310,10 @@ Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with stan designation, any -m option is ignored. Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing. + +Fixed a long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only +seemed to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace +would deadlock upon termination. The reason it never showed up +before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order +of opening them in other programs. I went through and found similar +(potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c.