the connection after an unexpected loss of carrier:
set reconnect timer ntries
The man page warns against using this command when your
timeout value is slightly more than the other sides :{}
Suggested by: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
list has been dialed. Alternate number dialing has no "pause".
Suggested by: joerg
Document this behaviour. Document that the number of dial attempts
applies to the number of phone calls rather than the number of times
each number is dialed. Add a missing .El. Give a decent description
of how to connect to an ISP.
and quitting telnet immediately (while phone number dialed)
Log client connection/disconnection with PHASE_BIT now.
Add more error recovery on client disconnection
in uu_lock(). Add uu_lockerr() for turning the results of
uu_lock into something printable. Remove bogus section in man page
about race conditions allowing both processes to get the lock.
Include libutil.h and use uu_lock() correctly where it should.
Suggested by: ache@freebsd.org
Accept SIGHUP as a "re-open logfile" signal. As ppp
doesn't set it's serial line to it's controlling terminal,
we can use HUP :)
This is a candidate for 2.2. The log.[ch] changes won't
conflict, but the main.c changes will. We just want to change the
kill(...,SIGHUP) to a SIGTERM and change the signal(SIGHUP,Hangup)
to a pending_signal(SIGHUP,LogReOpen).
These changes should fix the signal "problems" in ppp.
The signal changes should really be put into 2.2 too !
The following patches should do it. There were some other
changes made by Andrey recently that havn't been brought
into 2.2, it may be worth doing them now.
we need now.
Don't assume that file descriptor can't be 0 (many places)
Protect FD_* macros from being used with negative descriptors
Shorten MS EXT show help to fit 80 cols
dangerous! Signal handlers themself must be fixed to not call malloc,
but no pended handlers, it will be correct fix. In finite case each signal
handler can set some variable which will be analized later, but calling
handler functions manually is too dangerous (f.e. signals not blocked while
the handler or handlers switch executed in this case). Of course this
code can be fixed instead of removing, but it not worth fixing in any case.
Should go into 2.2
In addition sig.c code shows following dangerous fragments (there can be more,
but I stop after two):
This fragment
if (fn == SIG_DFL || fn == SIG_IGN) {
handler[sig-1] = (sig_type)0;
<------------- here
signal(sig,fn);
} else {
cause NULL pointer reference when signal comes
"here", but more worse fragment is below:
void handle_signals() {
int sig;
if (caused)
for (sig=0; sig<__MAXSIG; sig++, caused>>=1)
if (caused&1)
(*handler[sig])(sig+1);
}
caused is bitmask which set corresponding bit on each signal coming.
And now imagine, what happens when some signal comes (bit sets) while loop
is executed (see caused>>=1 !!!)
In this light carrier drop situation was (as gdb shows)
1. SIGSEGV in handle_signals because some junk called as *handler reference.
2. Since SIGSEGV was pended too (== never happens),
it can cause various range of disasters.
1) When carrier dropped, old variant often forget to detect it cause
unkillable loop forever (because SIGTERM pended too, but it will be
separate commit)
2) Time intervals accuracy reasons
Should go into 2.2
Remove #include's from sig.h and get dependant modules to include them
themselves. Make inclusion of if_var.h depend on __FreeBSD_version so
that the -current version of ppp can be used with 2.1.*
2.2 Candidate ?
All signal() calls have been changed to pending_signal() calls.
pending_signal() is defined in the new sig.c file. It remembers
the handler and traps the signal with a function that will remember
the signal.
main.c now calls handle_signals() to actually call the required
handlers (if the above handler was called).
If this doesn't close PR2662 (was PR2347), I'll cry.
Joerg, I think this should go into 2.2, but I havn't done anything
about it because I'm bound to botch it with the new sig.[ch] files.
I've just "cvs add"'d sig.[ch] so far.... can you update to 2.2 and
tell me what you did ? Thanks.
