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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: Committed initial (system* "foo" "bar") code.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:17:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6bm8tj3.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y8uc3tyz.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:54:12 -0600")

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>
> The current version is careful to allocate the args before the fork,
> and follows the libc and perl convention of blocking SIGINT and
> SIGQUIT

For reference, what posix says on the subject can be found at

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/system.html

> then make fixes as we figure out what else we need.

SCM_SYSERROR in the child will want to go I think, due to the way gtk
uses atexit, as discussed.  _exit(127) might be a good idea until a
pipe to get the error back to the parent is introduced.


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-19 21:54 Committed initial (system* "foo" "bar") code Rob Browning
2003-11-21  0:17 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]

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