----- > i'm pretty sure SIGWINCH is just the SIGUSR1 replacement right? it
tells
> the child to die as soon as is convenient. so the process really only
> needs to die off after it's fully initialised. if so then all of the
> above is avoided by using signal handlers in the only way they're safe to
> use: to tweak a global variable. (1.3's USR1 handler is almost that
> simple.)
Jeff Trawick made this same point yesterday in a hall talk.
>
> and actually that graceful die flag might as well live in the scoreboard.
> i can't remember why the graceful die flag doesn't live in the scoreboard
> in 1.3... maybe i just never thought of it. hrm. i bet i just didn't
> bother to move it there because 1.3 code had to be signal aware anyhow.
> you may want to move this to the scoreboard in 2.0 to eliminate the
> SIGWINCH in the children, it'll mean fewer potential problems with
> non-signal aware 3rd party code.
>
+1
Bill
