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Re: SIGTERM ignored before exec race
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Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: SIGTERM ignored before exec race |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:00:24 -0500 |
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On 2/9/13 12:02 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> $ rpm -q kernel glibc bash
> kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
> glibc-2.14.1-6.x86_64
> bash-4.2.10-4.fc15.x86_64
>
> I notice the following will wait for 5 seconds for
> the timeout process to end with SIGALRM, rather than
> immediately due to kill sending the SIGTERM.
I think the way to approach this is to change the SIGTERM handling from
straight SIG_IGN to a handler installed with SA_RESTART that catches the
signal but does nothing with it.
That will allow the shell to note whether it receives a SIGTERM between
fork and exec and react accordingly.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/