Code review comment for lp://qastaging/~afrantzis/unity-system-compositor/no-external-spinner-zombie-processes

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Alexandros Frantzis (afrantzis) wrote :

> The canonical way of handling this is a SIGCHILD handler; that way you only
> ever call non-blocking waitpid.

I considered this, but was concerned about interaction with libmirserver signal handling. If we think it is safe, though, I would rather use SIGCHILD too. I will propose an alternative MP with sigchild and we can decide.

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