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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
April 19, 2010 19:13
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Attempt at improving the perlipc docs
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u2zf86994701004191913icd82a341r1c6ea2e9d127161f@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net>wrote:

> Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Maik Hentsche <maik@mm-double.de>
> wrote:> Also, adding it three times may be an overkill. Personally don't
> > think adding it to the system() documentation too adds much. You
> > shouldn't be thinking about this when using system(), you should
> > when using wait() IMO.
>
> Agreed.
>

That assumes system isn't added to the program later on, but that's a minor
point compared to the following: The error become apparent when system
starts returning an error. As far as I'm concerned, system is the most
important to place information about its incompatibility with SIGCHLD
handlers.

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