Version: 2.79-2
File: /usr/share/man/man2/wait.2.gz

What do people think of something like the attached change?  While
working with Debian's cron package, I found that explicitly setting
the SIGCHLD action to SIG_IGN inhibits the creation of zombie
processes, even though kill(1) gives the "ignore" as the default
disposition.

Consider the attached example program.  Any of the following changes
will cause a zombie process to be visible in a ps -ef process listing:

 . remove the call to signal();
 . change SIG_IGN to SIG_DFL;
 . remove the sleep(1); (due to process scheduling, the zombie is only
   sometimes visible);
 . ???

--- /usr/share/man/man2/wait.2.gz
+++ /tmp/wait2.gz.22000	2008-04-07 12:02:31.000000000 -0400
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 .\"	Much other text rewritten
 .\" 2005-05-10, mtk, __W* flags can't be used with waitid()
 .\"
-.TH WAIT 2  2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH WAIT 2  2008-04-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 wait, waitpid, waitid \- wait for process to change state
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
 
 POSIX.1-2001 specifies that if the disposition of
 .B SIGCHLD
-is set to
+is set explicitly to
 .B SIG_IGN
 or the
 .B SA_NOCLDWAIT