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Bug #16835

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SIGCHLD + system new behavior on 2.6

Added by maths22 (Jacob Burroughs) almost 4 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

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Rejected
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.6.5p114 (2019-10-01 revision 67812) [x86_64-darwin19]`
[ruby-core:98156]

Description

In rubies < 2.5, the system command did not trigger sigchld signal traps. On ruby >= 2.6 it does. This appears to have been introduced by https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/054a412d540e7ed2de63d68da753f585ea6616c3 . To observe the change in behavior, run the following code on ruby 2.5 and 2.6:

Signal.trap("CLD")  { puts "Child died" }; system("true")

On ruby 2.5 it won't print anything. On ruby 2.6 it will print "Child died". I believe this is an unintended, undocumented change in behavior, but I may be wrong about that.

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