On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 04:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 00:01, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> My manpage for signal(2) says that you shouldn't assign SIG_IGN to
> >> SIGCHLD, according to POSIX.
>
> > So - I should be setting this to SIG_DFL and thats good for everyone?
>
> Yeah, we learned the same lesson in the backend not too many releases
> back. SIG_IGN'ing SIGCHLD is bad voodoo; it'll work on some platforms
> but not others.
Many thanks all, Best Regards Simon Riggs