Hanging loop with sleep() - c

Question

I'm trying to learn how to handle signals. In my program I have an array of pids of earlier created subprocesess. No I want to every couple seconds send a sigtstp signal to one of them. He just have to send sigchld to parent process and exit. Parent process should print an exit code of exited process and create next one in the place of exit one. Everything works fine in first loop but it hangs in second. So on output get:
loop
slept
forking
in to array
loop
Zakonczyl sie potomek 3934 z kodem 0.
So it's seems that sleep works in first loop but not in second. Or just main process didn't get back control after handling signal but this should't happen. So I have no idea whats may be wrong here.
while(1) {
printf("loop\n");
sleep(5);
printf("slept\n");
int r = rand() % n;
if(kill(process_tab[r],SIGTSTP) < 0) {
printf("Error while sending sigtstp signal.\n");
} else {
printf("forking\n");
if((child = fork()) < 0) {
printf("Fork failed.\n");
} else if(child == 0) {//to sie dzieje w procesie
if(signal(SIGTSTP,&catch_sigtstp)) {
printf("Error while setting signal handler.\n");
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
while(1) {
}
} else { //to sie dzieje w parencie
process_tab[r] = child;
printf("in to array\n");
}
}
}
And here are handlers.
void catch_sigtstp(int signal) {
kill(ppid,SIGCHLD);
_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
void catch_sigchld (int signal) {
int status;
pid_t child = wait(&status);
printf("Zakonczyl sie potomek %d z kodem %d.\n",child,status);
}

Answer 1

Add fflush after printf.
printf("Something\n");
fflush(stdout);
Otherwise you may not get the output as stdio is buffered by default.
Edit: Issues of handler
It is pretty unsafe to use printf function in signal handler, as it is not reentrant. Also, the catch_sigchild function can be modified:
void catch_sigchld (int signal) {
int status;
pid_t child;
while ((child = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG)) > 0)
{
// may be something else?
// ...printf("Zakonczyl sie potomek %d z kodem %d.\n",child,status);
}
}
The reason is that one signal can be delivered for multiple dead children.
Edit: blocking signal when printing.
To avoid deadlock inside stdio, you should block the signal:
sigset_t set;
sigemptyset(&set);
sigaddset(&set, SIGCHILD);
...
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL);
printf("my output");
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
...
Edit: as #Barmar has pointed, you parent process will receive SIGCHILD signal twice: once from your child'd signal handler, and one from OS.
To fix, it might be sufficient to remove your own signal source:
void catch_sigtstp(int signal) {
// kill(ppid,SIGCHLD); //< This one causes two signals per one child
_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}