Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 04:20:18 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@ratmir.ru> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/48856: Setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN still leaves Message-ID: <200304031220.h33CKI3I019540@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/48856; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@ratmir.ru> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@ratmir.ru>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/48856: Setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN still leaves Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:11:38 +0400 On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:26:34PM -0800, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > Thanks for the clarification, Alex, and the patch! I learned about > using fork on SysV, and I guess I assumed it was POSIX law. Np :) > I'll play around with your patch. I have some concerns about what it > would do to a program that calls wait, but that's something I can > experiment with. Well I suppose wait() will assume that there are no children died. Since zombie in nothing but kernel information for wait about the dead child. So you should choose either use wait and have zombies or use my patch, have no zombies and does not use wait. SY, Alex
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