:
:David Malone wrote (2001/06/11):
:> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
:> > I agree totally.  This should have been done ages ago, I've been burned on
:> > it a few times, but never badly enough to go fix it.
:> 
:> I've committed this - I'll let Matt do the MFC when he feels ready.
:
:Thanks for this commit, but it works exactly in the way, which
:I wanted to avoid. It is something like "partially submitted and
:not approved by me". Please, could you look once again on it?
:Please please please... Thanks. ;-)
:
:- Hunk #1 from commit adds PS_NOCLDWAIT when SIG_IGN is used for
:  SIGCHLD, so if I use
:       sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
:       sa.sa_flags = 0;
:       sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
:       sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL);
:       sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, &so);
:  I get additional flag SA_NOCLDWAIT in so.sa_flags. None of tested
:  systems (Solaris, Unixware, Irix, Linux, Aix) works in this way.
:- If hunk #1 is applied, I see hunk #2 (resetting SIG_IGN to SIG_DFL
:  for SIGCHLD) as almost unnecessary, because it is just cosmetic
:  change now and behavior in exec() is very different among various
:  systems.

    You have to remain consistent, otherwise the exec'd program
    might set a signal handler and then restore the original
    and suddenly it works differently.

:- (And I have found another bug in my original patch. Three code lines
:  and two bad bugs... :-( :-)
:
:Here are patches for current -current (... which I had to do in the
:first posting). These should change the behavior as is in Solaris,
:where flags are not added and SIGCHLD is resetted to SIG_DFL after an
:exec(). I'm testing these patches on my -stable production backup
:server running amanda and up to now without any problem.
:

    Your patches look pretty good.  Personally I don't think having
    the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag show up is a big deal since programs which
    use SIG_IGN do not generally know the flag even exists, but I
    do agree that we might as well make the interface as compatible
    as possible.

    I'll take a look at them tonight and (unless Dave wants to) I'll
    commit an update to -current and hold off the -stable MFC another
    few days.

                                            -Matt


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