On 2007-12-11 20:16, Fabian wrote:

Update of /cvsroot/monetdb/sql/src/backends/monet5 In directory sc8-pr-cvs16.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7608

Modified Files: merovingian.mx Log Message: FreeBSD is kind of b0rkened, or my code is completely wrong. It appears that FreeBSD doesn't set the pid of the child that sends the SIGCHLD to its parent, leaving merovingian clueless when it receives such signal. This "bug" is kind of limiting merovingian's abilities on FreeBSD in a way.

In the signal handler for SIGCHILD, you're supposed to call one of the variants of wait to get the PID of the child that caused the signal to happen.

In certain older systems (System V), you would keep getting the signal when the signal handler returned if you didn't.