Re: Wasn't this supposed to be fixed?

[Jan D.]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> The way this is supposed to work is that sigchld_handler is not
> supposed to call malloc.  However, it was changed to call
> strsignal, and that calls malloc.
>
> I think the best fix is to bring it back to the original design and
> move the call to strsignal out of the signal handler.  Instead, it can
> set another variable; Fcall_process can check that variable and call
> strsignal.
>
> Would you like to implement this?

Now checked in, please test.

Thanks,

        Jan D.