On Fri Jul 26 12:30:20 EDT 2013, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > plan9 kernel doesnt send notes on process exit to the parent. i do > not see any trivial way to emulate SIGCHLD as ape might spawn also > native processes so we cannot just add code to ape to emit the signal > on exit. > > we might handle wait records in a separate process tho using the devproc's > wait file (that means also we would need to reimplement the various > wait functions in ape as one would get a Einuse error on wait() when > someone reads your wait file, ugh) and also generate a signal.
we may also have to do this if we wish to support pthreads with processes. pthreads allow one thread to wait for the children started by a second thread. - erik
