From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EasyTAG 2.1.6 Handle SIGCHLD to make audacious archived skins workable
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:37:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299253054.8629.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D70ECD4.1050401@gmail.com>
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El vie, 04-03-2011 a las 15:44 +0200, Alessio Ababilov escribió:
> It seems that development of EasyTAG is stopped, and so I send the patch
> to gentoo developers.
>
> EasyTAG calls signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN) to avoid zombies. It works fine,
> but it leads to one problem.
> If one calls 'Run Audio Player', the player's SIGCHLD signal handler is
> inherited. So, when audacious calls system() in order to unpack its
> archived skin, the archiver process ends silently (the wait() call in
> system() function cannot hear that the child process has ended). The
> audacious process assumes that there was an error and an unarchived skin
> is used.
> A possible solution is to set a handler for SIGCHLD in EasyTAG. The
> handler is called when a child process ends and the latter doesn't
> become a zombie.
>
> Alessio Ababilov
What about opening a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org?
Thanks :-)
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2011-03-04 13:44 [gentoo-dev] EasyTAG 2.1.6 Handle SIGCHLD to make audacious archived skins workable Alessio Ababilov
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