On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Neal Becker wrote:
> While purusing daemon.c I noticed something that looks rather scary.
> I see that static void sigchld_handler(int sig) is modifying data
> structures in the signal handler. This may be asking for trouble.
> Also, tests of the structure do not seem to be protected with signal
> blocking.
This code is exactly the same logic as is used in smail, so if it is
bad, there's a long-standing problem in smail too! Would anybody else on
the list care to comment?
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