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Date:      Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:03:01 -0700
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl, cron or sh bug
Message-ID:  <20000701140301.A32165@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000701134907.A29454@freebsd.org>; from ache@freebsd.org on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:49:07PM -0700
References:  <20000701204443.A43672@nagual.pp.ru> <200007011700.TAA17595@grimreaper.grondar.za> <20000701134907.A29454@freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:49:07PM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 07:00:07PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> > I've got this and some other tweaks commit-ready; I'll do them tomorrow...
> 
> When running as cron job, from shell script, perl now always say this:
> "Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default" (see perl.c)
> 
> I am not shure, is this cron bug calling with ignoring SIGCHLD, sh bug, or 
> perl bug. I think cron shouldn't call anything with SIGCHLD ignored.

Yes, it was in cron/do_command.c
(void) signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);

What about re-allowing  SIGCHLD after second fork (i.e.vfork), just before
execle()? Any objections?

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.pp.ru>
http://ache.pp.ru/


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