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Re: [1.7] sigwait bug (SIGCHLD delayed to a next regular signal)
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:43:19AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I was explaining the problem to you. As I said, SIGCHLD is a signal
>like any other signal and if you had tried to use a similar mechanism to
>trap, say, SIGINT, you would have seen the same problem.
...and in fact, you did mask SIGINT in your example but, since you
didn't set a handler for it, sigwait() did detect the signal.
cgf
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