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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Herbert Euler <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A question on sigchld_handler
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:41:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jey7bgjx02.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY143-W291F7763C1D3BA99371B54DA540@phx.gbl> (Herbert Euler's message of "Thu\, 27 Dec 2007 14\:46\:43 +0800")

Herbert Euler <herberteuler@hotmail.com> writes:

> Could SIGCHLD possibly be delivered more than once to Emacs, so that
> `sigchld_handler' is invoked more than once?

A signal is blocked as long as its handler hasn't returned.  Thus that
can only happen when the signal is explicitly unblocked, or the function
is called manually.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-27  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-27  6:46 A question on sigchld_handler Herbert Euler
2007-12-27  9:41 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-12-27 10:10   ` Herbert Euler

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