https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6377
--- Comment #9 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2011-05-05 19:54:05 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > > Apart from some minor stylistic changes to the proposed patch, > > I added status checking and reporting (info) on sending SIGINT, > > and one change at around line 1006 in spamd.raw, on which I have > > a question (for Unix people, not for Daniel/Windows): is there > > any reason not to call child_handler() unconditionally, even > > if $scaling is true and the machine is not running Windows? > > If there are no processes to be reaped, the waitpid bails out > > immediately. > > Calling child_handler every once in a while even if it is > also attached to a signal handler may help to reap a child > process whose SIGCHLD may have been missed in a time gap > between exiting the while loop in child_handler and exiting > a signal handler, so - I think it does no harm, and it may > do some good on a rare occasion. Putting it to a review state. +1 KAM -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.
