kern/108390: wait4() erroneously waits for all children when
SIGCHLD is SIG_IGN
Alan Ferrency
alan at pair.com
Thu Feb 1 16:50:23 UTC 2007
The following reply was made to PR kern/108390; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alan Ferrency <alan at pair.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/108390: wait4() erroneously waits for all children when
SIGCHLD is SIG_IGN
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:42:17 -0500 (EST)
I apologize: This should read "ECHILD", errno 10.
> I modified my test script to output the return value and errno of the
> failing wait4() call, and it verifies that when waiting too long for the
> short-running process, wait4() is returning with ENOCHLD (no child
> processes) and not because it received notification of a child process
> exiting.
Alan
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