System.Posix.Signals should provide a way to set the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag
Since FreeBSD and OpenBSD don't conform to POSIX.1-2001 regarding the creation of zombie processes, “installHandler sigCHLD Ignore Nothing” just isn't enough to stop zombies from piling up. They do, however, support the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag to sigaction, and an interface for it would be useful to have.
The motivation is this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/9780 More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGCHLD
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Version | 6.12.1 |
Type | FeatureRequest |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | normal |
Resolution | Unresolved |
Component | libraries/unix |
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