On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 09:36 -0700, Roger A. Faulkner wrote: > Erik Trauschke <erik.trausc...@freenet.de> wrote: > > > I'm currently tinkering with sigtimedwait() to timeout a process I > > forked by setting it up to listen for SIGCHLD. > > > > What strikes me as odd is that I have to define a bogus signal-handler > > routine to make it work, otherwise no SIGCHLD is even received by the > > parent process. > > > > I attached a simplified example to this mail. All it does is setting up > > a signalset for SIGCHLD, fork a process and wait with sigtimedwait() for > > the child to exit. Which should happen immediately. However, when > > sigaction() with the bogus handler is not called, sigtimedwait() times > > out because it receives no SIGCHLD (truss also shows no SIGCHLD raised)
> I filed this bug report to address the problem: > > 6857047 sigwait malfunctions for system-generated SIGCHLD signals > > I expect to have it fixed soon, build snv_119 (or snv_120 at worst). Thanks, that would help us a lot. Erik _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
