Bill Stoddard wrote:
> 
> We (and third party modules) call lots of stuff in clean_child_exit that is not safe 
>to
> call from a signal handler. Dean has pointed this out many times. We need to 
>eliminate
> this particular architectural flaw in 2.0.
> 
> BTW, Jeff is working on a patch to 1.3 that will help out some though I do not know 
>all
> the details.
> 

I agree that we should have a "signal" aware version of c_c_e rather
than re-utilizing what we have. The PR's main point was that one key
problem was using exit() instead of _exit() and *that's* a new
one on me, if it's even true. Hell, some default handlers call exit()
directly...

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