Under the hood
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Background jobs report a dead-host error code, and zombie processes no longer count as alive.
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What
Background jobs can now report EHOSTDEAD when their host process is gone. The liveness probe also recognises a zombie process before it will call a pid alive.
Details
EHOSTDEADadded to the job error-code map, to the classifier that returns"ehostdead", and to the pattern grouping it withESTALLEDandEUNVERIFIED.
Evidence
EHOSTDEAD
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Related
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