sigchld_handler2.

[Wendy Palm]

mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Alain St-Denis wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 2.3.0p1, we have been experiencing the SSH2 stdout truncation problem
> > that was reported by a few users.
> >
> > I built the 20010115 snapshot. It seems to correct the problem but
> > before I was able to test it, I had to change sigchld_handler2 so it
> > would not reset the signal handler before waitpid is called. On Irix, it
> > seems a SIGCHLD is delivered for ever...
> >
> 
> This has been talked about on HP/UX platform as well.  The feeling is that
> sigaction() may be a better solution.  However, nothing has appeared in
> the OpenBSD tree in regards to that solution yet.

i'll second (third?) this.  i'm porting a version for the Cray platforms, and it
experiences the same problem.  the fix alain suggests works great for us.

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> 
> - Ben

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wendy palm
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