I know nothing specific of the BSD sighandling bug -- I just believed others who
reported it, and others who provided a patch, and others who told me the patch
worked. I've been unable to install a decent version of perl on my fiancee's Ti
powerbook w/OSX to do any BSD testing myself.
C
Duncan Findlay wrote:
> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:53:20 -0500
> From: Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SAtalk] Limiting the children in spamd / BSD sighandling bug?
>
> I'm trying to put together a patch for spamd that would allow a command line
> option to limit the number of children spamd has. Since my P1/100 40M RAM
> always slows to absolute uselessness when many mails are being processed,
> (like 25-30) which happens when I start up.
>
> Could someone (Craig?) explain the 'perl sighandling bug on BSD'
>
> Basically, my problem is that I can't figure out when children are exiting.
> Since $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; they are automatically reaped. I'd rather
> manually reap them, but would this break BSD?
>
> Thanks,
>
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