Re: [Exim] Re: SIGCHLD complaints back in exim 4.20

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: SIGCHLD complaints back in exim 4.20
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:14, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.


Strange.
I've just checked my build directories.
It is definitely defined.

    Nigel.
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