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Re: "Safe Signals" - please try this test

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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
January 18, 2001 06:23
Subject:
Re: "Safe Signals" - please try this test
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Pine.SOL.4.10.10101180922460.12522-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 nick@ing-simmons.net wrote:

> >wait pend=1 status=0

> By the way that is the signature of a platform that does not have
> the problem. One that does will have pend=2 or hang or perhaps coredump.
> 
> I would like to see one of generic BSDs, AIX and HPUX.

If anyone still has a SVR3-ish system around, that might be a good test.
I think their SIGCHLD handling was indeed slightly different.  

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042


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