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| author | yar <yar@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-07 11:01:39 +0000 |
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| committer | yar <yar@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-07 11:01:39 +0000 |
| commit | 68060b2236dc8453f4a0471f0b41e12e21711d18 (patch) | |
| tree | 13efc13191bd58a4e268f252e63b25106b748ed5 /lib/libc/sys/wait.2 | |
| parent | 76e830207900fd1ac155c5d6702335b25fff43de (diff) | |
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Finally document the option to avoid zombie creation
through ignoring SIGCHLD.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/wait.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/wait.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 index a3ba362..4f6df2d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 @@ -274,6 +274,14 @@ will fail and return immediately if: .It Bq Er ECHILD The calling process has no existing unwaited-for child processes. +.It Bq Er ECHILD +No status from the terminated child process is available +because the calling process has asked the system to discard +such status by ignoring the signal +.Dv SIGCHLD +or setting the flag +.Dv SA_NOCLDWAIT +for that signal. .It Bq Er EFAULT The .Fa status |
