[SSSD] [PATCH] Make default SIGTERM and SIGINT handlers use tevent

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Dec 2 12:48:41 UTC 2010


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On 12/02/2010 07:17 AM, Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:33:40AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 
> It is very dangerous to allow a signal handler to call exit() directly,
> as it can fire in the middle of other calls that shouldn't be interrupted.
> 
> This patch turns the default signal handler for SIGINT and SIGTERM
> events into a tevent signal handler which can call exit() safely, rather
> than a standard interrupt handler which will sometimes occur in unsafe
> places (such as quitting while a lock is held that prevents tevent's
> atexit functions from running)
> 
>> ACK

Pushed to master.

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