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Removed text on ignoring SIGCHL; replaced with pointer to sigaction.2

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Michael Kerrisk 2004-11-19 17:34:32 +00:00
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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.\" Modified 2004-11-19, mtk:
.\" added pointer to sigaction.2 for details of ignoring SIGCHLD
.\"
.TH SIGNAL 2 2000-04-28 "Linux 2.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
signal \- ANSI C signal handling
@ -261,16 +264,12 @@ signal.
.BR SIGFPE .)
Ignoring this signal might lead to an endless loop.
.PP
According to POSIX (3.3.1.3) it is unspecified what happens when
See
.BR sigaction (2)
for details on what happens when
.B SIGCHLD
is set to
.BR SIG_IGN .
Here the BSD and SYSV behaviours differ, causing BSD software
that sets the action for
.B SIGCHLD
to
.B SIG_IGN
to fail on Linux.
.PP
The use of
.B sighandler_t