RE: RE: RE: Re: set -e and SIGCHLD

[Marc Aurele La France <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxx wrote:

>     From: Bruce Korb <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>     For signal disposition, there are three choices:

>     1.  Supply a handling routine.  I don't suppose anyone recommends
>         that child processes call a routine in the parent process, so
>         that does not pass through, right?

> It is perfectly possible to have a handler for SIGCHLD.

... but not one that can survive exec().

Marc.

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