From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:46:47 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Force SIGCHLD to default handler
X-Git-Tag: 1.2.0-pre1~6456
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=vlc;a=commitdiff_plain;h=94763831fb59701a30f7e55c8ce9258ddbeeff18

Force SIGCHLD to default handler

... so that waitpid() works even if our parent process ignores SIGCHLD
(SIG_IGN is preserved across exec*()).
---

diff --git a/bin/vlc.c b/bin/vlc.c
index 0f7218e632..a771424194 100644
--- a/bin/vlc.c
+++ b/bin/vlc.c
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
      * Note: this is NOT an excuse for not protecting against SIGPIPE. If
      * LibVLC runs outside of VLC, we cannot rely on this code snippet. */
     signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+    /* Restore default for SIGCHLD in case parent ignores it. */
+    signal (SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SETENV
 # ifndef NDEBUG