Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Ignore SIGWINCH in remote client call to poll(2) (RHBZ#567931).
On 02/24/2010 02:06 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
The correct solution is to mask out SIGWINCH for the duration
of the poll(2) system call. The per-thread mask is changed and
restored immediately after the call. Since we are using
pthread_sigmask, this should not affect other threads, and
since we restore the signal mask immediately afterwards it should
not affect the current thread visibly either.
This is interesting. No signal handler will necessarily do things like
longjmp-ing out of the remote driver, so every signal could give rise to
a similar bug.
In particular, SIGCHLD would be an obvious candidate for being handled
the same way, since both SIGWINCH and SIGCHLD are default-ignored
signals. On the other hand, while for SIGWINCH it would be mostly
harmless(*), for SIGCHLD it would leave a zombie until the remote
libvirtd answers. Any ideas?
(*) Unless you have more than one thread using curses, and a thread
other than the one calling libvirt has blocked SIGWINCH.
Paolo