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Jerrad Pierce wrote: > Actually no, it sets them for that *block*. So say for instance you use an > open |cmd, the child process will have inherited those signal handler > settings. If you try testing a little you'll see these lines make all the > difference in preventing zombies. Yes the child process will inherit them, but something like /bin/sh will immediately change the signal dispositions anyway, so I'm not at all sure what you think this is going to achieve. It *might* help FileCache'd pipe-opens of broken programs that don't set their signal dispositions and don't reap children properly, but I'm far from clear why FileCache is trying to fix this problem when a vanilla perl piped open doesn't. -- Alan Burlison --Thread Previous | Thread Next