Even if that's so, Linux is fortunately in the camp of "doing things
as they've always been done" in its current handling of SIGCHLD and
SIG_IGN. The auto-reaping behavior probably goes all the way back to
Unix V7, because both BSD and System V do it.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
"There -- we made them swerve slightly!" //MST3K
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