From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:12:16 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2012, #02; Fri, 9)
Message-ID: <m28va9duxb.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <871ug15k5c.fsf@Niukka.kon.iki.fi>

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> writes:

> With strace, it looks like CVS sets SIG_IGN as the handler of
> SIGINT and SIGQUIT only in the parent process after forking, not
> in the child process that executes the editor.
>
> CVS also temporarily blocks signals by calling sigprocmask, but
> it undoes that before it forks or waits for the child process.

This emulates what system(3) does.

Andreas.

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