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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2004-11-19 17:34:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2004-11-19 17:34:32 +0000 |
| commit | 197362df19d389f8a85d04f5b7e0f4fbdce5d7d9 (patch) | |
| tree | d4ab43b8c979316cceabaa0769e0f9d653b2760f /man2/signal.2 | |
| parent | b7769f32c5018048b0f61490fd034471eebba5f8 (diff) | |
Removed text on ignoring SIGCHL; replaced with pointer to sigaction.2
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/signal.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/signal.2 | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/signal.2 b/man2/signal.2 index d997b819..1173d653 100644 --- a/man2/signal.2 +++ b/man2/signal.2 @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" +.\" Modified 2004-11-19, mtk: +.\" added pointer to sigaction.2 for details of ignoring SIGCHLD +.\" .TH SIGNAL 2 2000-04-28 "Linux 2.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME signal \- ANSI C signal handling @@ -261,16 +264,12 @@ signal. .BR SIGFPE .) Ignoring this signal might lead to an endless loop. .PP -According to POSIX (3.3.1.3) it is unspecified what happens when +See +.BR sigaction (2) +for details on what happens when .B SIGCHLD is set to .BR SIG_IGN . -Here the BSD and SYSV behaviours differ, causing BSD software -that sets the action for -.B SIGCHLD -to -.B SIG_IGN -to fail on Linux. .PP The use of .B sighandler_t |