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SIGCHLD signal handling

Olaf Meyer olaf.meyer at nokia.com
Mon Sep 4 09:14:02 EDT 2000 
Oleg,

thanks a lot. Your code does the trick :-)

Do you have any idea why the
  sys.stdin.readline()
is interrupted by the signal handler?

Olaf


Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Olaf Meyer wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with the SIGCHLD signal on HP-UX 11.
>
> From c.evans at clear.net.nz Wed Jun  9 15:51:57 1999
> Date: 09 Jun 1999 23:26:47 +1200
> From: Carey Evans <c.evans at clear.net.nz>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Re: waste of resources ?
>
> Unix doesn't guarantee you'll get exactly one signal delivered per
> event.  To be sure to get all the children, you need to loop over the
> processes with waitpid().
>
> I think something like this should do it:
>
> ----------
> def sigchld_handler(signum, frame):
>     print "Checking for processes..."
>     try:
>         while 1:
>             pid, sts = os.waitpid(-1, os.WNOHANG)
>             if pid == 0:
>                 break
>             print "Process %d ended with status %04x." % (pid, sts)
>     except OSError, detail:
>         if detail.args[0] != errno.ECHILD:
>             raise
>         else:
>             print "No more children."
>     else:
>         print "Some children yet to finish."
> ----------
>
> I can't actually see any way to keep count well enough and avoid race
> conditions, to get rid of the try/except.  Sometimes I wish Python had
> POSIX signals, but not badly enough to actually write it.
>
> --
>          Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
>
>              "I'm not a god.  I've just been misquoted."
>
> Oleg.
> ----
>      Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
>            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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