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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:58:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com>
To:        Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: ntpd hangs under FBSD 8
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.1002250856180.5432@zeno.ucsd.edu>
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On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Peter Steele wrote:

>> Very wild guess, check the process signal mask of the child for both 
>> methods of spawning.
>
> I'm running ntpd through Python. How do I check the process signal mask? 
> I did some quick searches and it seems Python does not support 
> sigprocmask().

That wouldn't help, because you'd get the signal mask of python itself, 
not of the ntpd child process.

truss and/or ktrace can help here, just look backward in the trace for the 
last call to sigprocmask.  (Another possible culprit can be a signal 
that's handled and then a longjmp (not siglongjmp) out of the 
handler.  You'd see this in the trace as a signal delivery not followed 
by sigprocmask or sigreturn.)

-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate@thatsmathematics.com



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