If you're using POE for process management, then I may have made a change that affects you. It's especially relevant to people using _signal to handle SIGCHLD, people using SIGCHLD polling (legacy Perl users who don't trust "safe signals"), and people using a MSWin32 Perl like ActiveState or Strawberry.
Please review the change in the repository and give it a spin before it ends up on CPAN. The build you save may be your own. https://github.com/rcaputo/poe/commit/d3cb2fbfb53799ab22754b900fc47af703758910 commit d3cb2fbfb53799ab22754b900fc47af703758910 Author: Rocco Caputo <rcap...@cpan.org> Date: Sun Oct 6 16:58:28 2013 -0400 Fix a "Kernel has child processes" warning even when it doesn't. Michel Schrameck reported that the above warning was coming from a very simple, obviously not fork()ing test program. I was able to reproduce the problem with the test case when USE_SIGCHLD was turned off. This fix changes the way first polling of SIGCHLD happens. It passes all known tests, but it may negatively affect older programs. Please report any problems. -- Rocco Caputo <rcap...@pobox.com>
