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Re^2: Monitoring child processesby rovf (Priest) |
on Mar 13, 2012 at 15:54 UTC ( [id://959387]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
SIGCHLD is handled differently to other signals on most UNIX's, in that it does not by default kill the process it signals.Correct, and at least on Linux (the Solaris docs are not precise about this), the default for SIGCHLD seems to be "ignore". That's why I was so puzzled, that in my Perl program I had to explicitly set it to IGNORE to get things working...
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