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On Fri May 25 02:12:56 2012, LeonT wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:17 AM, James E Keenan via RT > <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > > Hugmeir reported on #p5p tonight, "I can reproduce this in HP-UX, Linux, > > and OpenBSD. I don't know the first thing about signals, so could > > someone check if this actually a bug?" > > > > I know just as little about signals. �I reproduced the problem on Darwin > > with a version of chaimf's program (attached) cleaned up a bit to run > > under 'use strict'. > > The sigchild handlers contains a blocking waitpid, so of course it > will wait until all children have died. perlipc tells one to use > WNOHANG for a reason. This is the expected behavior, not a bug. > > Also, one should not assume every child-death generates a sigchild, > nor that a sigchild necessarily means a child's death. That's not the > way the thing works. > > Leon > Reviewing this older ticket tonight, I read Leon's remark of more than 15 months ago as saying: Not a bug. Accordingly, I'm taking this ticket for the purpose of closing it within 7 days unless some argues persuasively otherwise. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24537Thread Next