SYS V SIGCLD Handling

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <957 at sdrc.UUCP> scjones at sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>When I run this on my Sys Vr3.0 system, it goes into recursive
>death.  As soon as the handler calls signal to reestablish
>itself, it is immediately reinvoked.  Am I doing something wrong,
>is my Sys V broken, or is Sys V just generally broken?

I think whoever designed the SIGCLD facility wanted you to wait()
before reenabling the SIGCLD catcher.

I think the whole notion of signals is broken, but there's not
much point in getting into that..