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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:20:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/50100: Ping doesn't handle SIGINT while resolving hosts
Message-ID:  <200303182020.h2IKK8vq094976@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/50100; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Johan Mulder <johan@localhost.nl>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/50100: Ping doesn't handle SIGINT while resolving hosts
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:13:57 +1100 (EST)

 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Johan Mulder wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > 	When a ping is started, ping tries to resolve the host. When the
 > 	host can not be resolved or resolves very slowly, ping doesn't
 > 	do anything when it receives a SIGINT.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	Ping a host in a domain of which you're sure the nameservers are
 > 	down or unreachable.
 > >Fix:
 >
 > 	Fix the signal handler.
 
 The signal handler is not broken.  Last time I looked the bug seemed to
 be deep in the resolver library.  res_send() retries after EINTR for some
 reason.
 
 Bruce

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