As mentioned in r16117 and the book "Advanced Programming in the Unix
Environment" by W. Richard Stevens, we should ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT
before forking, since it is not guaranteed that the parent process starts
running soon enough.
To avoid calling sigaction() in the vforked child, instead block SIGINT and
SIGQUIT before vfork() and keep the sigaction() to ignore after vfork(). The
FreeBSD kernel discards ignored signals, even if they are blocked;
therefore, it is not necessary to unblock SIGINT and SIGQUIT earlier.
reports of its impending demise were removed in 2009 (r199257).
However, in 1996 (r16117) system(3) was switched from vfork(2) to
fork(2) based partly on this. Switch back to vfork(2). This has a
dramatic effect in cases of extreme mmap use - such as excessive
abuse (500+) of shared libraries.
popen(3) has used vfork(2) for a while. vfork(2) isn't going anywhere.
is interrupted by saving the pid.
The old code would assign the return value to pid which would trash
it, to fix the problem save a copy of the pid to be used as the
paramter to wait4().
Submitted by: Toshihiko ARAI <toshi@jp.FreeBSD.org>
adding (weak definitions to) stubs for some of the pthread
functions. If the threads library is linked in, the real
pthread functions will pulled in.
Use the following convention for system calls wrapped by the
threads library:
__sys_foo - actual system call
_foo - weak definition to __sys_foo
foo - weak definition to __sys_foo
Change all libc uses of system calls wrapped by the threads
library from foo to _foo. In order to define the prototypes
for _foo(), we introduce namespace.h and un-namespace.h
(suggested by bde). All files that need to reference these
system calls, should include namespace.h before any standard
includes, then include un-namespace.h after the standard
includes and before any local includes. <db.h> is an exception
and shouldn't be included in between namespace.h and
un-namespace.h namespace.h will define foo to _foo, and
un-namespace.h will undefine foo.
Try to eliminate some of the recursive calls to MT-safe
functions in libc/stdio in preparation for adding a mutex
to FILE. We have recursive mutexes, but would like to avoid
using them if possible.
Remove uneeded includes of <errno.h> from a few files.
Add $FreeBSD$ to a few files in order to pass commitprep.
Approved by: -arch
just use _foo() <-- foo(). In the case of a libpthread that doesn't do
call conversion (such as linuxthreads and our upcoming libpthread), this
is adequate. In the case of libc_r, we still need three names, which are
now _thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() <-- foo().
Convert all internal libc usage of: aio_suspend(), close(), fsync(), msync(),
nanosleep(), open(), fcntl(), read(), and write() to _foo() instead of foo().
Remove all internal libc usage of: creat(), pause(), sleep(), system(),
tcdrain(), wait(), and waitpid().
Make thread cancellation fully POSIX-compliant.
Suggested by: deischen
points. For library functions, the pattern is __sleep() <--
_libc_sleep() <-- sleep(). The arrows represent weak aliases. For
system calls, the pattern is _read() <-- _libc_read() <-- read().
by W.Richard Ste vens. EINTR handling suggested by bde@freebsd.org).
Code cleanup:
1. Add missing return type.
2. Replace 'union wait' by int.
3. Use Posix-style signal handling instead of signal().
4. Use fork() instead of deprecated vfork().
5. Block signals before fork()'ing, instead of after.
6. Return -1 if fork() fails, instead of 0.
7. Add EINTR handling for waitpid() call.
Also add claim of Posix conformance to man page.
