Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com> writes:
> All ECHILD is doing is saying there was no child. Since we aren't really
> waiting for the child, I don't see how that's a problem.
You're missing the point: on some platforms the system() call is
returning a failure indication because of ECHILD. It's system() that's
broken, not us, and the issue is how to work around its brokenness
without sacrificing more error detection than we have to.
regards, tom lane
