[MPlayer-users] Slave Command "run" doesn't reap forks

[Amir Hassan]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:00:31 +0200, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

>
> There is already this in the code:
>
> #ifndef __MINGW32__
>     signal(SIGCHLD, child_sighandler);
> #endif
>
> #ifndef __MINGW32__
> static void child_sighandler(int x)
> {
>     pid_t pid;
>     do {
>         pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG);
>     } while (pid > 0);
> }
> #endif
>
> So zombies should be reaped.

weird. with MPlayer SVN-r37386-snapshot-4.9.2 on wheezy/armv7l (BananaPi)  
it definitely doesn't reap zombies. sorry, i won't find the time to  
investigate more deeply because i switched to mpv for my project. anyway i  
still think mplayer rocks. :)

> (As a side note, setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN would have the same effect.)