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diff libpurple/example/nullclient.c @ 21060:9838af97586b
A pidgin fans in Great Britain.U.K thinks that nullclient should explicitly
ignore SIGCHLD to avoid defunct dns resolution children. Really?
| author | Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:31:01 +0000 |
| parents | 44b4e8bd759b |
| children | c38d72677c8a |
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--- a/libpurple/example/nullclient.c Fri Nov 02 08:14:05 2007 +0000 +++ b/libpurple/example/nullclient.c Fri Nov 02 13:31:01 2007 +0000 @@ -269,6 +269,13 @@ PurpleAccount *account; PurpleSavedStatus *status; + /* libpurple's built-in DNS resolution forks processes to perform + * blocking lookups without blocking the main process. It does not + * handle SIGCHLD itself, so if the UI does not you quickly get an army + * of zombie subprocesses marching around. + */ + signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); + init_libpurple(); printf("libpurple initialized.\n");