Re: [Chicken-users] replace signal with sigaction

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

On Sep 30 2011, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:


> ;; Now a tentatively replacement for process-wait.  I'm not using
> ;; That anywhere.   Falls back to the state of affairs in pid=0
>
> (define (alt-process-wait pid nohang)
>  (if (<= pid 0)
>      (process-wait pid nohang
>      (if nohang
>          (process-test-pid pid)
>          (process-wait-for-pid pid))))

That one is definitely wrong if ever use together with save-fork:

The pid = 0 case would have to signal possible waiting threads.

Forget it.  We need a better API anyway.