Sudo command hangs when register for SIGCHLD in RHEL5.8 and RHEL6.2

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Issue

  • The application hangs when it register the signal handler for SIGCHLD and sets the mask for this signal for handling the signal from the child thread.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
  • sudo-1.7.2p1-13.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 and 6.2

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