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Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:11:36 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
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Subject: Re: newsyslog(8) should wait(2) for children
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Maxim Konovalov wrote:

[ ... patch to wait for children, but do nothing with the result ... ]

Yes.

Why not just set the signal handler for the child process
termination to "ignore", so that the child processes do
not become zombied in the first place, so it's not ever
necessary to do a useless loop whose only purpose is to
reap zombies without examining their exit status?

-- Terry

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