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SubjectRe: On SIGCHLD signal semantics
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Marc wrote:

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>First, applications that set their SIGCHLD handler to SIG_IGN are not
>inherently broken. They are simply expecting System V semantics.

But Linux is not System V. Linux is Linux. Ergo: these
applications are broken. Full stop.

[..]
>One open question remains, and that is the advisability of causing child
>processes to inherit SIG_IGN as their SIGCHLD signal handler (i.e. to do
>an exec* syscall while ignoring child processes).

Perhaps the SIGCHLD handler can be reset to SIG_DFL across an
exec, unless of course POSIX exlicitly forbids this.
--
Michiel Boland <boland@sci.kun.nl>
University of Nijmegen
The Netherlands


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