From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:15:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <45F59395.4010708@gnu.org> <45F5A2B4.7090301@gnu.org> <85ejnumf1o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <868xe11tzu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <85abyglrbs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85tzwokb4x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86tzwoxq1q.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173878097 23266 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2007 13:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sam Steingold , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 14 14:14:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HRTJG-0000v7-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:14:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRTK9-000723-Ai for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HRTK3-00071P-Uf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HRTK3-00071C-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRTK2-000718-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:15:18 -0500 Original-Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HRTJ6-0003xy-DL; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 40CE08A0014; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:14:18 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed\, 14 Mar 2007 11\:01\:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67926 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > >> Why do we care about stopped processes? > > It is one of the possible states of a process, see process-status. Any > job control shell need to be able to handle that. Yes, but how does a stopped process cause a sigchld signal to be sent to the parent? Because it is 'kill -9'ed while stopped, perhaps? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk