UNIX signal handling. Wait in SIGCHLD handler. C

Question

I've a parent and a child processes. In the parent I established a signal handler for a SIGCHLD. I send SIGTSTP signal to the child, that trigers SIGCHLD and in SIGCHLD siganl handler in parent I call wait function to get a status of the stopped child. But instead of returning immediately it blocks. Then I send a SIGCONT signal to the child and wait returns with errno set to Interuppted system call. I can't understand what I'm missing.

pid_t pid;


static void sig_chld(int signo);


int main() {

    struct sigaction act, savechld;
    sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
    act.sa_flags = 0;


    act.sa_handler = sig_chld;
    if (sigaction(SIGCHLD, &act, &savechld) < 0){
        return errno;
    }

    pid = fork();
    switch (pid){
        case -1:{
            perror("fork failed");
            return errno;
        }
        case 0:{    //child
            if (sigaction(SIGCHLD, &savechld, NULL) < 0)
                return errno;

            execlp(path, name_of_executable, (char*)NULL);
            return errno;
        }
        default:{
            for (;;)
                pause();
        }
    }
    return 0;
}



void sig_chld(int signo) {
    int statol;
    if (wait(&statol) < 0){
        perror("waitt error");
        exit(errno);
    }

    if (WIFSTOPPED(statol)){
        puts("Child is stopped");
    } else if (WIFEXITED(statol)){
        puts("Child exited");
    } else if (WIFCONTINUED(statol)){
        puts("Child continued");
    } else if (WIFSIGNALED(statol)){
        puts("Child is signaled");
        int sig = WTERMSIG(statol);
        psignal(sig, NULL);
    }
}

Answer 1

You have to use waitpid() instead of wait(), and you need to specify the option WUNTRACED to also have stopped children reported with waitpid(), like this:

if (waitpid(-1, &statol, WUNTRACED) < 0) {

Now waitpid() should return immediately and your macro WIFSTOPPED(&statol) should be true.