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-rw-r--r--libmpv/client.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libmpv/client.h b/libmpv/client.h
index 2d108ca8d3..2700ad70d9 100644
--- a/libmpv/client.h
+++ b/libmpv/client.h
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ extern "C" {
* and set it to SIG_IGN.
* - mpv will reseed the legacy C random number generator by calling srand() at
* some random point once.
+ * - mpv may start sub processes, so overriding SIGCHLD, or waiting on all PIDs
+ * (such as calling wait()) by the parent process or any other library within
+ * the process must be avoided. libmpv itself only waits for its own PIDs.
*
* Encoding of filenames
* ---------------------