Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Cullum Smith @cullum@bsd.cafe

2/14/2026, 9:52:31 PM

Public

Am I crazy, or is `pwait` totally broken on FreeBSD 15?

I started noticing various daemons not restarting properly. rc.subr calls wait_for_pids, which calls pwait(1) on the daemon's PID. Occasionally, when running `service foo restart`, I'll get an error saying "foo already running!"

After some investigation, it looks like pwait returns a few milliseconds before the process actually terminates.

Caught in the act...this should NOT be possible:

$ kill 97891; pwait 97891; ps -p 97891
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
97891 - REJ 0:01.20 invidious

$ kill -0 97891
kill: 97891: No such process

Must be a race condition somewhere?

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