#8532 NORM 8.2.0 (: SIGCHLD fights with threads.

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#8532: SIGCHLD fights with threads.
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   Reporter:  cscott         |       Owner:  marco                            
       Type:  defect         |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)             
  Component:  sugar-toolkit  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  r+                               
Next_action:  review         |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by gnu):

 Another alternative would merely be to omit the signal handler, and let
 the zombies pile up.

 If you don't like piles of zombies, you can run a waitpid(-1, &status,
 WNOHANG) every once in a while, e.g. when you start an activity, or draw
 the frame, or do something like that, to clean up any pending zombie.  If
 the waitpid succeeds, loop til it fails, thus cleaning up all the zombies
 in the queue.

 But I don't really understand the structure of Sugar...

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