Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> We should probably just remove the loop altogether.
>
> The problem is not the loop, but that the first wait3 will take
> "forever" without the preceding sleep.

If wait3 would block here then it would be a serious kernel bug, or
someone is defining WNOHANG to 0.

Andreas.

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