On 23 May 2003, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> The old behaviour of exim (pre 4.14) on new linux kernels, where reports
> of the form:-
> May 23 04:37:38 pillarbox kernel: application bug: exim(1877) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
> May 23 04:37:38 pillarbox kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated.
>
> are seen on all deliveries, appears to be reoccurring in 4.20 - looks
> like the fix got backed out or worked round.
You need to have SIG_IGN_WORKS defined to skip the code that causes
this. It should be defined in OS/os.h-Linux.
Philip
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