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.
from /var/mail, added a routine to delete the removed user's files
from /tmp, /var/tmp, & /var/tmp/vi.recover, and added code to kill any
running processes owned by the removed user). I've also added a flag
for non-interactive execution, cleaned up the man page, and adjusted
my address.
Submitted by: ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu (Guy Helmer)
the password file into /etc/master.passwd and optional (-p) into
/etc/passwd. Enable this feature with the compile
option -DPASSWD_IGNORE_COMMENTS.
The character `#' introduces a comment. Leading spaces and tabs are
ignored: '^[ \t]*#.*\n$'
Count an empty line - only spaces, tabs or newline - also as a comment.
An empty line at the bottom of /etc/master.passwd is a common
novice error and increased my mail load: '^[ \t]*\n$'
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
life easier if a PS/2 mouse locks up the keyboard (frequent-ish,
but not repeatable).
Tidy up code (a bit) and make it -Wall
Is this a 2.2 candidate ? (although it doesn't -Wall in 2.2 because
of the lack of sys/sysproto.h
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 ?
stable now at a customer's site.
Finally add the ability to syslogd to pipe particular messages through
an arbitrary filtering command. Idea stolen from IRIX.
This code is courtesy of the interface business GmbH, Dresden.
Comment about whether to also merge this into 2.2 or not, please.
Reviewed by: (long ago) peter
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.
