On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 17:19 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > I am not sure we are talking about the same thing, but afaics poll() + > signalfd can work to (say) reap the childs. Actually, ppoll() alone is > enough. > Last time I checked, ppoll() was not actually implemented across all architectures in a manner that solved the race it was intended to solve. I'd be delighted to learn that this had been fixed? :-) Soctt -- Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com