Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> The one waiting for the demise of a process that gets no processing
> time for dying.

If there is no children dying then the loop is exited immediately.

> It is the only thing that can prevent a deadlock here.

Which deadlock?

> I can't see how this guarantees one signal per child.

It's explicitly explained in the quoted text.

Andreas.

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