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Re: SIGTERM ignored before exec race


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: SIGTERM ignored before exec race
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:34:12 +0000
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On 02/18/2013 02:39 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/17/13 7:46 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks for continuing to look at this.
>> Just in case you need to consider other options,
>> elaborating a bit on my previous suggestion:
> 
> I looked at this, and it ended up being a little more complicated and a
> little less flexible than the approach I adopted.
> 
>> Your suggested method I think is to have a handler something like
>> the following which should work too, but perhaps with the caveat
>> that the exit status of the child before the exec might not have
>> the signal bit set.
> 
> No, much simpler.  The signal handler just sets a flag.  It's only
> installed by interactive shells, so the flag never changes in any other
> shell.  Setting the flag to 0 at appropriate times and checking for
> non-zero values at appropriate times is all that's needed.  If a child
> process finds the flag non-zero, it calls the usual terminating signal
> handler, which ends up killing the shell with the same signal.

I've confirmed that bash 4.3 alpha doesn't have the issue.
Well I can't reproduce easily at least.
I didn't notice a NEWS item corresponding to it though.
If I wanted to inspect this code change what would be the best approach?

thanks,
Pádraig.




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