init not processing SIGCHLD during reboot?

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 3:35 pm, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 12:13 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> > > The loop in init starts any unstarted  RESPAWN and ASKFIRST commands, 
then
> > > it sleeps for one second, then it does a wait() to sleep until one of
> > > its children dies.
> > 
> > The reason init programs want to sit in a wait() loop is so that they can 
> > restart things that die.  But if all you want to do is reap zombies (such 
as 
> > during shutdown), set the SIGCHLD handler to SIG_IGNORE.
> 
> As I mentioned in one of my earlier emails, this is not portable.

P.S.  Not portable to what?

Rob
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