Merge branch 'maint'

[paraslash.git] / gui.c

diff --git a/gui.c b/gui.c
index fa1538b0d63f3db2ca8be6497aa0ce797d3a89a1..dbe0a19ced1d1da9e2d588a2498dfc931371ee65 100644 (file)
--- a/gui.c
+++ b/gui.c
@@ -902,7 +902,13 @@ static int open_stat_pipe(void)
        if (init)
                init = 0;
        else
-               sleep(1);
+               /*
+                * Sleep a bit to avoid a busy loop. As the call to sleep() may
+                * be interrupted by SIGCHLD, we simply wait until the call
+                * succeeds.
+                */
+               while (sleep(2))
+                       ; /* nothing */
        ret = para_exec_cmdline_pid(&pid, conf.stat_cmd_arg, fds);
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;