On 2020-11-06 08:25, Matthias Apitz wrote: > See also man page of wait(2): the errno=ECHILD:
> ECHILD (for waitpid() or waitid()) The process specified by pid > (waitpid()) or idtype and id (waitid()) does not exist or is > not a child of the calling process. (This can happen for one's > own child if the action for SIGCHLD is set to SIG_IGN. See > also the Linux Notes section about threads.) So, does mutt set SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD? Maybe it should not, or maybe it should temporarily restore it in places like this where it synchronously waits for a child. That seems like a cleaner solution than the proposed patch. -- Ian
