Erik Trauschke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.

The default behavior for SIGCHLD from POSIX is to ignore it unless set up
otherwise.


Jörg

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