Plesk sendmail wrapper does not handle child signals properly

[danami]

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PRODUCT, VERSION, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE
Plesk 12.0.18 CentOS 6 1200150126.15, x64

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
User scripts are not able to send emails using Plesk's sendmail wrapper if they set $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; in their code. This is happening with both qmail and postfix sendmail wrappers.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Example script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$title='Perl Mail demo';
$to='[email protected]';
$from= '[email protected]';
$subject='foo';
$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';
open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
## Mail Header
print MAIL "To: $to\n";
print MAIL "From: $from\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
close (MAIL);

ACTUAL RESULT

# ./test.pl
plesk sendmail[17205]: waitpid failed (10): No child processes
A message has been sent from [email protected] to [email protected]

The maillog

Apr 13 07:39:51 plesk12 plesk sendmail[17206]: handlers_stderr: SKIP
Apr 13 07:39:51 plesk12 plesk sendmail[17206]: _mh_fork(): Error occured during waiting the child process with pid: 17207: No child processes
Apr 13 07:39:51 plesk12 plesk sendmail[17206]: Error during 'check-quota' handler
Apr 13 07:39:51 plesk12 plesk sendmail[17205]: waitpid failed (10): No child processes

No email is actually sent!

EXPECTED RESULT
The Plesk sendmail wrappers should be dealing with SIGCHLD itself regardless of what the user script sets.

ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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I've confirmed that this is happening across different OS and arch, Centos 5, 6, 7 and Debian and Ubuntu also.