On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> If against D5, here're the edits for the principal change. I'll aardvark
> this once I have it more fleshed out to include the changes elsewhere, but
> I wanted to get at least this out now.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> XSH, exec, DESCRIPTION, page 777 (new text to be XSI shaded)
> - Line 9894, replace "Signals" with "Except for SIGCHLD, signals"
> - Line 9896, insert just before "After" at the tail end
> "If the SIGCHLD signal is set to be ignored by the calling process, it
^^^^^^^
Ooops, this should be "process image", not "process".
> shall be set to the default action in the new process image. The
> SA_NOCLDWAIT shall be cleared for the SIGCHLD signal."
> XSH, exec, RATIONALE, page 783 (no shading)
> - Line 10118, replace "signals set to SIG_IGN" with "signals, other than
> SIGCHLD, set to SIG_IGN".
> - Extend the paragraph that ends at line 10126 with
> "The exception for SIGCHLD exists to ensure the new process image is
> notified about the progress or termination of the process's child
> processes, unless the new process image sets its own SIGCHLD signals to
> be ignored."
> XSH, exec, CHANGE HISTORY, page 785 (no shading)
> - Insert a new entry after line 10222, reading
> "The description of signal handler inheritance is updated so that the
> new process image does not inherit automatic child process reaping."
Marc.
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