Signals and the such-like

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>The best solution so far (from where I'm standing) seems to be a
>global "exiting" flag.  Is that too unreasonable?

I was about to reluctantly say ok and make the "exit_state" variable
in do_exit a global but then I started to wonder if this isn't
a problem with every call to close_all_files.  There are a couple of
them outside of the call to do_exit.  One is in spawn_guts and one
is on vfork.  I don't think either of those should hang either,
should they?

cgf