Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > More incentive to do it in a signal handler, tested code:
> > void sig_handler (int i) {
> >   if (i == SIGCHLD) { /* signal based reaper */
> >     while (wait3(NULL, WNOHANG, 0) > 0);
> >   }
> > }
> 
> The man pages do not say that wait is signal safe, putting it in a single
> handler could nuke your program in some situations.

Hmm... isn't signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN) the best for this situation anyway?

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