On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:44:02PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Well, the "nice" part of it is usually not nice enough to justify to > have libraries to magically fork() processes and let the possible > non-aware user of the library receive signals and all that stuff. It > gets even worse with multithreaded apps using many libs. So you are basically worried about broken applications which actually pay attention to SIGCHILD and uses wait(2) instead of waitpid(2)? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html