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From: Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>
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Subject: Re: sigwait - differences between Linux & FreeBSD
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:53:21AM +1100, Stephen Hocking wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In my efforts to make the xrdp port more robust under FreeBSD, I have
>> discovered that sigwait (kind of an analogue to select(2), but for
>> signals rather than I/O) re-enables ignored signals in its list under
>> Linux, but not FreeBSD. The sesman daemon uses SIGCHLD to clean up
>> after a session has exited. Under Linux this works OK, under FreeSBD
>> it doesn't. I have worked around it in a very hackish manner (define a
>> dummy signal handler and enable it using signal, which means that the
>> sigwait call can then be unblocked by it), but am wondering if anyone
>> else has run across the same problem, and if so, if they fixed it in
>> an elegant manner. Also, does anyone know the correct semantics of
>> sigwait under this situation?
>
> ports@ is the wrong list to discuss the issue in the base system.
>
> Solaris 10 sigwait(2) manpage says the following:
> If sigwait() is called on an ignored signal, then the occurrence of the
> signal will be ignored, unless sigaction() changes the disposition.
>
> We have the same behaviour as Solaris, ingored signals are not queued or
> recorded regardeless of the presence of sigwaiting thread.
>

This is a bit confusing. sigwait(2) says: "The signals specified by
set should be blocked at the time of the call to sigwait()."...