# HG changeset patch
# User Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
# Date 1173647325 0
# Node ID deede4f7067d04640c6eb770e1579784546e6825
# Parent  1192779764c1b4d2e9fd63eb3a0623125a18e69b
tweak last patch: add comment and avoid the first sleep

diff -r 1192779764c1 -r deede4f7067d src/process.c
--- 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)
 	{