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- From: kenji@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Coherent DDK Kernel (4.0.1r68+) known problems
- Message-ID: <9301212169@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 01:14:56 GMT
- References: <piggy.727069788@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
- Reply-To: kenji@rd.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
- Organization: Macrofield Corporation, Toyonaka-City, Osaka, Japan
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- La Monte Yarroll (piggy@hilbert.cc.utas.edu.au) wrote:
- : The correct solution SHOULD be to set SIGCHLD to SIG_DFL. If SIGCHLD
- : is set to SIG_DFL, the kernel will not actually send the signal.
- : Setting it to SIG_IGN means that you will never get zombie children
- : (i.e. wait() will never give you back a return status).
-
- You're right. I experienced that subshell invoked from tin never returned
- to the tin after it exited, by setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN.
-
- Use SIG_DFL for SIGCHLD.
-
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- Kenji Rikitake, Operations Director, Macrofield Corporation
- office: <kenji@rcac.astem.or.jp> / home: <kenji@rd.macrofield.or.jp>
- "There is little excuse to continue propagating bang paths or mixed formats."
- -- Stuart Lynne <sl@wimsey.com>, Message-ID: <COLw2o.H82@wimsey.bc.ca>
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