Re: Re: [UnixOS2] waitpid : why does this not work?

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:36:33PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote:
> > Let me repeat: there is no such thing as "Unix".  IIRC, EM did not
> > invent this flavor of signal handling himselves; it exists on some
> > flavors of Unix as well.
> 
> You mean there is a Unix system where SIGCHLD is pending until anybody
> calls wait() or waitpid()?

Yes, IIRC there was a discussion of such architectures on the
perl5-porters mailing list.

Ilya