Bug#541551: perl-base: detecting stopped child process fails using POSIX WIFSTOPPED

Brendan O'Dea bod at debian.org
Sat Aug 15 23:45:48 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:15 AM, torp<1250272407 at noid.net> wrote:
> When perl is testing if a child process is stopped, the
> result of the WIFSTOPPED function is never correct:

Thanks for the bug report Tor.

It appears that the problem is actually with waitpid not setting $?
correctly when the process is stopped.  Will investigate further.






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