Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:25:25 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/34195: setting the action for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN will create zombies Message-ID: <200201232325.g0NNPPK74749@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200201230850.g0N8o1O88271@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200201230850.g0N8o1O88271@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:50:01 -0800 (PST), Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> said: >> If the action for the SIGCHLD signal is set >> to SIG_IGN, child processes of the calling >> processes will not be transformed into zombie >> processes when they terminate. If the calling > Yes, it is a traditional BSD way. This was a bone of contention in the Austin Group (which developed SUSv3 and POSIX.1-2001), which I think eventually led to a requirement that SIGCHLD be reset on exec to SIG_DFL. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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