[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] handle sigchld in mplayer.c

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Sat Sep 18 01:56:23 CEST 2004


On Friday 17 September 2004 21:14, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 02:09, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > As pointed out the run command from the menu patch leaves zombies for the
> > expired child processes until MPlayer exits. This patch hopefully fixes
> > it by handling SIGCHLD.
> > Ok, to apply?
>
> I had previously quickly grepped mplayer source for wait(), and it seems to
> be used in menu, menu atleast used to have a shell console, heh, maybe
> that's what it's for. Someone should invesetigate how it's used in libmenu
> so that capturing sigchld doesn't break that (if it ever worked, anyway)...
>

Yes, you need attached patch, too.
I should have stayed in bed for this week.

Sascha

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