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From: mjs@sfsup.UUCP (M.J.Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: System V and SIGCLD
Message-ID: <266@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 09:04:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 09:04:07 1986
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In article <709@cheviot.uucp> lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
>The following code goes into an infinite loop on System V :-
>
>	trap(sig)
>	int sig;
>	{

		/* add something like this: */
		int pid = wait(0);
		/* and you won't get the signal until the next child exits */

>		printf("trapped SIGCLD\n");
>		signal(SIGCLD, trap);	/* reset handler */
>	}
>
>Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK
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