Re: no sigchild under win32 ?

Does your sub look like this?

sub dead_child {
  ...
  $SIG{CHLD} = \&dead_child;
}
$SIG{CHLD} = \&dead_child;
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Upate: At the moment, what does your sub do?

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Re: Re: no sigchild under win32 ? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2002 at 14:40 UTC
no i dont have another callbak in the sub - why? do i need that?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: no sigchild under win32 ? by gumby (Scribe) on Jun 17, 2002 at 14:48 UTC
Yes, you need to reinstate the handler. Read the perlipc man page.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: no sigchild under win32 ? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2002 at 14:51 UTC
ok i see but it also doesnt work for the first time when the first child dies ...	[reply]
Re: Re: no sigchild under win32 ? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2002 at 15:11 UTC
concerning your updated question: it resets the status_field of my tk-frontend and opens the result-window	[reply]