#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:  package        |    Verified:  0                                
  Blockedby:                 |    Blocking:                                   
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Changes (by cscott):

  * next_action:  review => package


Comment:

 No need to let the zombies pile up: gobject will take care of reaping them
 for us.

 But even if it didn't, you could call sigaction to get linux to reap your
 zombies for you.  'man sigaction' and see the following code doing it the
 hard way (from python): http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/sugar-
 update-control;a=commitdiff;h=1a01995403730d911486c007532c76e1b5d22c40it/

 That's a dirty dirty hack which I just needed in order to be able to test
 the new library update code while this issue was still outstanding.  I
 hope to be able to remove it soon!

 Patch pushed to master and sucrose-0.82.  Thanks!

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