No such signal: SIGCHILD at ../selftest/selftest.pl line 179

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Oct 18 15:08:02 MDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:55 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 14:48 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > any clues about the typo SIGCHILD (instead of SIGCHLD) that is
> > > still in selftest.pl? Anyone? I did not have time to think this
> > > through properly, but every now and then I notice that
> > > "make test" keeps telling me:
> > > 
> > > "No such signal: SIGCHILD at ../selftest/selftest.pl line 179."
> > > 
> > > Cheers - Michael
> > 
> > As Jelmer intends to rewrite selftest.pl in python, I think the correct
> > fix is to just revert my change.
> 
> Ah yes, the python cures it all thing... ;-)

:-)  More the fact that I would rather not put effort into a very
implementation-specific fix, when someone is attempting to replace the
whole implementation.

> > It only happened very rarely, due to a
> > bug if I recall, and so I think a proper fix isn't worth the effort.
> 
> Ok, fair enough. I am not sure what the effort would be, but I'll let
> you do it, either way. :-)

Thanks, and sorry for the bother.

Andrew Bartlett

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