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From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: passt.c: incorrect signal() return value check
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:47:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzg42xfyy3hraald3ep4stdopggsjwjr7lyartuyuewljdqxcy@i7nmtvde64s4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230413132505.2b0c8e52@elisabeth>

Hi, thanks for the fast reply.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 01:25:05PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > signal() returns SIG_ERR on failure or the previous setting if present. If
> > a setting has been inherited from the parent (as is the case when
> > starting from systemd with the default setting of IgnoreSIGPIPE=yes),
> > the check will fail.
> 
> Right, thanks for reporting this.
> 
> By the way, feel free to share your systemd unit files, I guess we
> could add them under contrib/ in case they are useful for somebody.

I'll see if I can put together some kind of readable version for a
patch. This is a somewhat intricate setup to get a specific
constellation of painful legacy services running with 1.x series
Podman under systemd, but the "1.x series Podman under systemd" part
might be useful to someone I guess.

> I guess we could just check SIG_ERR from signal(), it looks a bit
> simpler, and perhaps split this into two cases (a failure on signal()
> doesn't mean we "[c]ouldn't install signal handlers").
> 
> Will you post a patch? It's trivial, so if it's unnecessary effort for
> you I can also go ahead and do it.

If you can just push the "== SIG_ERR" fix please do, my only tree is
currently on another machine.

 -Valtteri
 

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-13 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-13 10:24 passt.c: incorrect signal() return value check Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-04-13 11:25 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-13 14:47   ` Valtteri Vuorikoski [this message]
2023-04-13 17:46     ` Stefano Brivio

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