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[Bug libc/10638] New: system(3) does not catch its own SIGCHLD


I have a program catching SIGCHLD itself, in order to e.g. restart failed
children processes.  This program also calls system(3) for children run once.
When system should return, I get a SIGCHLD instead, and my process gets blocked
endlessly in the wait call in my SIGCHLD handler, because the particular child
run by system does not exist anymore and has already been wait()ed for, I
assume, and my process has other children running.

This was not so on AIX and unix sysv systems, and the manpage of system says
nothing about such a behaviour

Here is a testcase :

#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void sigcld(int signo)
        {
        int stat;

        printf("sigcld\n");
        wait(&stat);
        }

main(int argc, char **argv)
        {
        int child;

        if ((child = fork()) == 0)
                pause();
        if (!argv[1])
                signal(SIGCHLD, sigcld);
        system("date");
        kill(child, SIGTERM);
        }

If you run it as:
         ./a.out nosignalhandler
a.out terminates and kills the forked child
If you run it as:
         ./a.out
a.out gets blocked in the wait() call in the SIGCHLD handler

-- 
           Summary: system(3) does not catch its own SIGCHLD
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.9
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: drepper at redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: phdm at macqel dot be
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10638

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