From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: system() fix.
15 Jun 1998 09:16:35 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD9897.158233A0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Christopher Faylor'" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> This looks almost right, but the linux man page says that SIGCHLD is blocked
> while SIGQUIT and SIGINT are ignored.  That sounds right, actually, because
> otherwise a program could miss notification of child termination.
> 
> I modified your patch to work as below.  If you agree with it, I'll check
> the change in immediately.
> 

You're right. Single UNIX specification notes about _blocking_ of SIGCHLD too.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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