Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

2018-08-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
writes: > ebied...@xmission.com writes >> Subject: [PATCH v6 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. >> >> Wen Yang and majiang >> report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to >> continually restart preventing an

Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

2018-08-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
writes: > ebied...@xmission.com writes >> Subject: [PATCH v6 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. >> >> Wen Yang and majiang >> report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to >> continually restart preventing an

[PATCH v6 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

2018-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Wen Yang and majiang report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to continually restart preventing an application from making progress. The code was being overly pessimistic. Fork needs to guarantee that a signal sent to multiple processes is logically delivered before

[PATCH v6 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

2018-08-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Wen Yang and majiang report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to continually restart preventing an application from making progress. The code was being overly pessimistic. Fork needs to guarantee that a signal sent to multiple processes is logically delivered before