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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
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Subject: Re: misc/34195: setting the action for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN will create
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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


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