What is the rational for posix2 requierment that system(char*) blocks sigchld?

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Subject: What is the rational for posix2 requierment that system(char*) blocks sigchld?
From: e2xbegqsdyt21hfc <e2xbegqsdyt21hfc@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:49:04 -0700 (PDT)
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According to

    man 3 system

, sigchld is blocked while system(char*) is executing.
As far as I can tell this is a requirement imposed by
posix2.
  What is the rational for blocking this signal?


 
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