signal vs. sigaction and SIGCHLD

[vilibald wanca]

Doesn't wait call suspend the calling process until the child is terminated?
>From man page for wait:

 The wait() function suspends execution of its calling process until
     status information is available for a terminated child process

But in your case the child process is not terminated. If you use the same
pid = waitpid(-1, &tstat, WUNTRACED); in case of  signal you'll get
the same result as with sigaction, or that's what I suspect to happen,
haven't had a chance test it.

Vilda


2013/5/21 Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2013 15:24:26 +1000, Noel Hunt wrote:
> > If I recompile with `#undef SIGACTION', waithandler is not
> > called.
> >
> > I should add that even with the sigaction(2) interface, without
> > the `sigprocmask' call, it still doesn't work, which suggests
> > that SIGCHLD is being blocked.
> >
> > Can anyone explain why?
>
> From reading "man 3 signal", I get the following impression:
>
>      No    Name         Default Action       Description
>      20    SIGCHLD      discard signal       child status has changed
>
> The default action is to discard the signal, so the following
> paragraph could make sense:
>
>      The sig argument specifies which signal was received.  The func procedure
>      allows a user to choose the action upon receipt of a signal.  To set the
>      default action of the signal to occur as listed above, func should be
>      SIG_DFL.  A SIG_DFL resets the default action.  To ignore the signal func
>      should be SIG_IGN.  This will cause subsequent instances of the signal to
>      be ignored and pending instances to be discarded.  If SIG_IGN is not
>      used, further occurrences of the signal are automatically blocked and
>      func is called.
>
> From my limited understanding, maybe this could help you find
> an explanation of the observed behaviour?
>
> Also compare /usr/include/sys/signal.h for the definition of
> the involved typedef's.
>
>
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