From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-18T04:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to call system having trap("CHLD", "IGNORE")?

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Pavel Smerk wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> doing some forks I want to ignore SIGCHLD. But
>
> trap("CHLD", "IGNORE")
> system "echo"
>
> ends in ruby 1.8.2 (2005-04-11) [i386-linux] with a following error:
>
> in `system': no implicit conversion from nil to integer (TypeError)
>
> Where I am wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> P.

it looks like a bug.

try

   trap('SIGCHLD'){ nil }

-a
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