Quoth Brian Bloniarz <brian.bloni...@gmail.com>,
> IMHO the simplest fix is the patch below: simply
> avoid SIG_IGN, instead install a handler which does nothing.
> This way, an exec() restores the handler to SIG_DFL. I've
> included a testcase too.
I don't know enough to make a case for or against this, but the
side effects are different: whether the handler does anything
or not, it will interrupt some system calls. Since there are
already may be a regular barrage of SIGALRMs from the GHC runtime,
maybe one more such interruption can't hurt anything ... but
note that we recently heard from someone in Australia with a
problem on OpenSolaris where evidently these SIGALRMs were in
fact interrupting hGetContents from a pipe, and no one seemed
to have any notion why.
At any rate, the affected system calls would set EAGAIN, possibly
including the write(2) that's supposed to set EPIPE (though
I think that would be an unusual implementation.)
Donn Cave, d...@avvanta.com
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