[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] handle sigchld in mplayer.c

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Fri Sep 17 23:14:38 CEST 2004


On Saturday 18 September 2004 02:09, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> As pointed out the run command from the menu patch leaves zombies for the 
> expired child processes until MPlayer exits. This patch hopefully fixes it
> by handling SIGCHLD.
> Ok, to apply?

I had previously quickly grepped mplayer source for wait(), and it seems to be used
in menu, menu atleast used to have a shell console, heh, maybe that's what it's for.
Someone should invesetigate how it's used in libmenu so that capturing sigchld doesn't
break that (if it ever worked, anyway)...




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