Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > That's all the standard can guarantee. The standard does not guarantee that > each child exit will generate a separate SIGCHLD delivery. There is also > nothing in the standard that speaks to what a shell, for instance, does > when it receives a signal. For instance, there is nothing preventing a > shell from reaping multiple children when it receives a single SIGCHLD and > running a single instance of the SIGCHLD trap as a result.
On Solaris with a signal queue length of 32, is seems to be likely that this usually won't happen. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'