Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> The man pages talks about "stopped processes" -- it doesn't mention
> (un)traced processes at all.

There are two classes of stopped processes: traced ones and untraced
ones. See the rationale section in the POSIX manpage.  ptrace is not part
of the standard, so it is generally ignored in the normative part of it.

Andreas.

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