From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 13:26:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F54016A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.numachi.com (mail2.numachi.com [198.175.254.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F48F43D39 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 69266 invoked from network); 24 May 2004 20:26:41 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by mail2.numachi.com with SMTP; 24 May 2004 20:26:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 65970 invoked by uid 1001); 24 May 2004 20:26:41 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:26:41 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Chris Samaritoni Message-ID: <20040524202641.GT34662@numachi.com> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040524115230.0332b0f8@mail.tierra.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040524115230.0332b0f8@mail.tierra.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.2 issue with SIG{CHLD}? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:26:45 -0000 On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:53:44AM -0700, Chris Samaritoni wrote: > Basically, $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE' is supposed to have Perl automatically > reap zombie children, however it acts as if Perl is never receiving the > CHLD signal. You could verify this by writing a SIGCHLD handler that does harvest wth wait(), and have it report what it gets... -- Brian Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large