On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 11:58:36AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > What should system(3) do when the signal action for SIGCHLD is > SIG_IGN, or has SA_NOCLDWAIT set? > [...]
My suggestion would be invent a new working mechanism for disowning children and banish the mess to COMPAT_POSIX_MISTAKE. I had never noticed this specific additional behavior that prohibits wait(2) from operating properly; that makes the feature broken instead of just messy and ugly. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
