(sigchld_handler): Sleep before wait3 to avoid a busyloop.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 418705ab77d..eccdc2075d2 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-03-11  Sam Steingold  <sds@gnu.org>
+
+	* process.c (sigchld_handler): Sleep before wait3 to avoid a busyloop.
+
 2007-03-11  YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu  <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
 
 	* macfns.c (Fx_server_vendor): Change vendor string to "Apple Inc.".
diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c
index 78fc400e5a2..0fbbd5d34c3 100644
--- a/src/process.c
+++ b/src/process.c
@@ -6497,6 +6497,7 @@ sigchld_handler (signo)
       /* Keep trying to get a status until we get a definitive result.  */
       do
 	{
+          sleep (1);
 	  errno = 0;
 	  pid = wait3 (&w, WNOHANG | WUNTRACED, 0);
 	}