[vlc-devel] Re: vlc: svn commit r19402 (fenrir)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le dimanche 25 mars 2007 01:54, Laurent Aimar a écrit :
>  All ?
>  SIGCHLD is currently not ignored and that's the one doing it
> in my case (probably because system() is called by screensaver.c)
>  Btw, ignoring SIGCHLD is not an option...

SIGCHLD *is* ignored by default (man 7 signal). In fact, system() itself 
blocks SIGCHLD (man system)!! Proprely written code uses wait() anyway 
regardless of SIGCHLD.

>  So that leaves us with checking for EINTR every where we have to...

Completely disagree. Properly multithreaded programs block all signals 
in every single threads, except in specific threads that might NEED to 
receive them; and in particular, they do not allow one thread to signal 
a random other one.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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