Erik Trauschke <erik.trausc...@freenet.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently tinkering with sigtimedwait() to timeout a process I > forked by setting it up to listen for SIGCHLD. > > What strikes me as odd is that I have to define a bogus signal-handler > routine to make it work, otherwise no SIGCHLD is even received by the > parent process.
The default behavior for SIGCHLD from POSIX is to ignore it unless set up otherwise. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code