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.
You could do worse than to look at the existing handling of signals in
the postmaster and its children; that code has been beat on pretty
heavily ...
regards, tom lane
