Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler

[Sam Steingold]

> * David Kastrup <address@hidden> [2007-03-11 20:43:13 +0100]:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to do
>
> for (;;) {
>     errno = 0;
>     pid = wait3(&w, WNOHANG | WUNTRACD, 0);
>     if (!(pid < 0 && errno == EINTR))
>       break;
>     sleep(1);
> }
>
> That way, we don't get an obligatory sleep if things happen to work
> without it.

yes - my point was to make the change as small as possible to make it
clear what I want (and minimize opposition). it appears that people do
not mind, so I will modify it along your lines.


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