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diff src/process.c @ 76462:deede4f7067d
tweak last patch: add comment and avoid the first sleep
author | Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> |
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date | Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:08:45 +0000 |
parents | 720d443bce01 |
children | e5e12c57c640 8c2ef9d5d4a8 |
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--- a/src/process.c Sun Mar 11 20:13:23 2007 +0000 +++ b/src/process.c Sun Mar 11 21:08:45 2007 +0000 @@ -6495,13 +6495,16 @@ #define WUNTRACED 0 #endif /* no WUNTRACED */ /* Keep trying to get a status until we get a definitive result. */ - do - { - sleep (1); - errno = 0; - pid = wait3 (&w, WNOHANG | WUNTRACED, 0); - } - while (pid < 0 && errno == EINTR); + while (1) { + errno = 0; + pid = wait3 (&w, WNOHANG | WUNTRACED, 0); + if (! (pid < 0 && errno == EINTR)) + break; + /* avoid a busyloop: wait3 is a system call, so we do not want + to prevent the kernel from actually sending SIGCHLD to emacs + by asking for it all the time */ + sleep (1); + } if (pid <= 0) {