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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 20:04:32 +1000
Subject: Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:
> But
> what if I want for certain Popen signals SIG_IGN and others SIG_DFL.
> How should I do that?

You can't. A signal is a signal; you can't specify default handling
for some and not others. The only way is to actually handle them, and
then you can decide what to do on a per-process basis.

ChrisA