tor 2010-02-25 klockan 11:47 -0700 skrev Alex Rousskov:
> Main.cc installs a sig_child handler that catches SIGCHILD and calls
> waitpid(). Watch_child() in main.cc also calls waitpid(). Why are we
> waiting for the same thing in two places? Does not that create a race
> condition, possibly not exiting waitpid() in watch_child() if the signal
> handler is executed first?
There is actually only one.. the two is in two different processes.
Watch_child is the master process watching the actual worker process.
The sig_child handler is the helper pid reaper.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Feb 25 2010 - 19:04:55 MST
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