Glib child processes

Kevin Ryde user42 at zip.com.au
Wed Aug 10 03:20:11 CEST 2011


Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> writes:
>
> for modules and libraries

I suppose a module usually has no business reaping globally.
Is pid==0 much used?

> AnyEvent::Util.

Incidentally, in the pod of "CHILD PROCESS WATCHERS", for the bit where
it says system() works, is that because a good system() implementation
temporarily blocks SIGCHLD?

> Well, AnyEvent did say that this is a widely supported, but not a
> portable feature, so any such program would already be noncompliant to
> the API.

I suppose could put in something to advertise whether it works or not,
if it's going to go only sometimes.



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