[Sorry for the late reply.] As Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Unfortunately, a general patch for this is beyond my (current) capabilities, so I'd really appreciate could the two of you agree on a general fix for this.
Does this do the right thing on FreeBSD?
+ struct sigaction sig_act; + + sig_act.sa_handler = SIG_IGN; + sig_act.sa_flags = 0; + sigemptyset( &sig_act.sa_mask ); ... +#ifdef SA_NOCLDWAIT + sig_act.sa_flags |= SA_NOCLDWAIT; +#endif + sigaction( SIGCHLD, &sig_act, NULL );
I didn't test that yet, but i think that should work. If SA_NOCLDWAIT is set (in a call for SIGCHLD), sa_handler ought to be ignored anyway. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)