William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Currently it just makes me feel uncomfortable when it doesn't work as
> expected.. I hope someday it could get fixed.
I'll add something like the following to the manual for a start, to at
least describe how it works now ...
Scheme code signal handlers are run via a system async (*note
System asyncs::), so they're called in the handler's thread at
the next safe opportunity. Generally this is after any
currently executing primitive procedure finishes (which could
be a long time for primitives that wait for an external
event).
Incidentally, if you just want to not create zombies among exited
children, apparently setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN works in current posix
(but not older systems).
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