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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SYS V SIGCLD Handling
Message-ID: <11656@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Nov 89 05:40:31 GMT
References: <957@sdrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <957@sdrc.UUCP> scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>When I run this on my Sys Vr3.0 system, it goes into recursive
>death.  As soon as the handler calls signal to reestablish
>itself, it is immediately reinvoked.  Am I doing something wrong,
>is my Sys V broken, or is Sys V just generally broken?

I think whoever designed the SIGCLD facility wanted you to wait()
before reenabling the SIGCLD catcher.

I think the whole notion of signals is broken, but there's not
much point in getting into that..