Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>
>>> Why do we care about stopped processes?
>>
>> It is one of the possible states of a process, see process-status.  Any
>> job control shell need to be able to handle that.
>
> Yes, but how does a stopped process cause a sigchld signal to be sent
> to the parent?

By not using SA_NOCLDSTOP when you register the handler.

Andreas.

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