[hackers] Re: [dwm][PATCH] Use sigaction(SA_NOCLDWAIT) for SIGCHLD handling

From: NRK <nrk_AT_disroot.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 03:01:40 +0600

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 09:45:08PM +0100, Chris Down wrote:
> Can there really be zombies before setup()? At that point we haven't even
> started in earnest yet, I don't see how a child would even get going.

I'm not sure myself. But that's what the old comment was suggesting:

        /* clean up any zombies immediately */
        sigchld(0);

So I was assuming that there might be.

- NRK
Received on Tue Jul 26 2022 - 23:01:40 CEST