From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 23:08:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F5516A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:08:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.secureworks.net (mail.secureworks.net [209.101.212.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C70A43D5C for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:08:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mdg@secureworks.net) Received: (qmail 40039 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 23:08:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO HOST-192-168-8-243.internal.secureworks.net) (209.101.212.253) by mail.secureworks.net with SMTP; 2 Jul 2004 23:08:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:08:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew George X-X-Sender: mdg@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040702190621.B37004@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: SIGURG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:08:25 -0000 I have a fairly active program that forks and uses pipes to communicate back to the parent before exiting. When I go to wait() on the child, occasionally the status is signaled - SIGURG instead of exit()ing normally. It appears the child process is doing everything it needs to be doing. What will generate this signal? Is it safe to ignore, or should I be handling it somehow? This is running on 4.10 ... -- Matthew George SecureWorks Technical Operations