From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Pryzby Subject: Re: manpages: explicit set SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN is distinct from SIG_DFL Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:20:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20080407212010.GA23866@cetus> References: <20080407161651.GA22034@cetus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:08:02PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Michael Kerrisk > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Justin Pryzby > > wrote: > > > Version: 2.79-2 > > > File: /usr/share/man/man2/wait.2.gz > > > > > > the SIGCHLD action to SIG_IGN inhibits the creation of zombie > > > processes, even though kill(1) gives the "ignore" as the default > > > disposition. > Note that even though the default disposition of SIGCHLD is > "ignore", explicitly setting the disposition to SIG_IGN results > in different treatement of zombie children. > > Seem okay? Yup. Thanks, Justin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html