Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland McGrath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] protect /sbin/init from unwanted signals more | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:04:49 -0800 (PST) |
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> inits today don't do anything with blocked signals. They explicitly ignore all signals, > they don't want to deal with an enable those they do.
I don't think we should constrain them this way. Future init versions might want to use blocked signals and sigwait.
> Which reminds me. I need to retest, but I had a case where I had a > trivial init that set all signal handlers to SIG_IGN so it could ignore > SIGCHLD. And not all of it's children were getting reaped automagically. > Do we have a bug in the reparenting/reaping logic?
We have had bugs along those lines in the past. AFAIK we've licked them all now. Re-testing is in order.
Thanks, Roland
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