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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: system() and SIGCHLD
- Message-ID: <16tphdINNlvv@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 15:31:57 GMT
- References: <94029@bu.edu>
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- In article <94029@bu.edu> tasos@cs.bu.edu (Anastasios Kotsikonas) writes:
- >If process A forks B, then A does a system(), is A supposed to receive
- >a SIGCLD when system() returns?
- >
- >All replies said no, and some people were astonished that AIX had this
- >"problem" [really!].
-
- I must say that on all boxes I have tried, yes, the system() generates
- a SIGCHLD. So the handlers have to be done in concordance with this
- (life would be so easier sometimes without that).
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