John Hughes wrote:
> The "reapchild" function blows up on svr4 and later (probably even on svr3)
> 'cos it resets the signal handler BEFORE calling wait, so the handler gets
> called in an infinite loop.
>
> I guess it does this in an attempt to avoid losing any signals.
>
> A better way, portable between at least Linux, BSD and SVR4 is to us
> sigaction.
>
> Here's a patch:
Please, please add more explanation. You've sent in a lot of patches,
but none of them can be added by me directly, hence there's a good
chance that they'll end up in the void, probably not what you expected.
Regards,
Joey
-- It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
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