From: simon <simon@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:43:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Apparently SIGCHLD is blocked by default in processes run in a
X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/commitdiff_plain/3be6dd89bbedcbfb9cfbf9d4d022d6c412e51029

Apparently SIGCHLD is blocked by default in processes run in a
pterm, which was breaking my bash job notification patch. This is
apparently not the case for xterm, so I've fiddled with it. Not
entirely sure _why_ it did this in the first place, but there we go.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@4997 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
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diff --git a/unix/pty.c b/unix/pty.c
index 50b548ce..b9bd510b 100644
--- a/unix/pty.c
+++ b/unix/pty.c
@@ -621,10 +621,18 @@ static const char *pty_init(void *frontend, void **backend_handle, Config *cfg,
 	/*
 	 * SIGINT and SIGQUIT may have been set to ignored by our
 	 * parent, particularly by things like sh -c 'pterm &' and
-	 * some window managers. Reverse this for our child process.
+	 * some window managers. SIGCHLD, meanwhile, has been
+	 * tinkered with by the watchdog process. Reverse all this
+	 * for our child process.
 	 */
 	putty_signal(SIGINT, SIG_DFL);
 	putty_signal(SIGQUIT, SIG_DFL);
+	{
+	    sigset_t set;
+	    sigemptyset(&set);
+	    sigaddset(&set, SIGCHLD);
+	    sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
+	}
 	if (pty_argv)
 	    execvp(pty_argv[0], pty_argv);
 	else {