SIGCHLD is not delivered

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Mar 29 13:29:00 GMT 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 02:30:53PM +0100, Andreas Steenpa? wrote:
>I have noticed that sometimes SIGCHLD is not delivered when a child
>process exits. I can reproduce this behaviour reliably under the
>following, very special circumstances:

I've uploaded a new snapshot which seems to fix this problem.  Before
running it, I could see a rare when I ran your test case in a loop.
After, I never saw a hang.

Thanks for the test case and please give the snapshot a try.

cgf

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