I think this belongs on devel@ Begin forwarded message: > From: John Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: April 16, 2008 11:43:46 AM EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Bacula-users] should SIGTHAW be ignored, rather than > cause termination? > > This morning one of our Bacula clients, running bacula-fd 2.2.8 > on Solaris 5.9, was unreachable. It turned that somebody had > suspended and resumed the machine: > > Apr 15 16:27:40 name-changed cpr: [ID 535284 kern.notice] System > is being suspended > Apr 15 16:28:39 name-changed cpr: [ID 583038 kern.notice] System > has been resumed. > Apr 15 16:28:43 name-changed hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] > SUNW,hme0 : Internal Transceiver Selected. > Apr 15 16:28:43 name-changed hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] > SUNW,hme0 : 100 Mbps Full-Duplex Link Up > Apr 15 16:28:46 name-changed bacula-fd[13873]: [ID 702911 > daemon.error] name-changed-fd: Fatal Error because: Bacula > interrupted by signal 35: Checkpoint Thaw > > The Solaris cpr(7) man page says that when the system is > "resume"d, the processes whose state is restored are sent SIGTHAW > to get the chance to do whatever housekeeping they might require > to resume operations, but that most can simply ignore the signal. > > So at first I thought that SIGTHAW might be a Solaris-ism which > bacula does not know about, and that it was bacula's default signal > handler which was exiting, rather than just continuing > execution. > > But src/lib/signal.c does explicitly set the SIGTHAW handler to > sighandle (which I gather exits) rather than sigignore. > > Is this an example of the bacula developers simply making > conservative assumptions, or do we know that bacula-fd could not > successfully continue execution after resumption? > > -- > John Jorgensen LCD System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 306.337.2344 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save > $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http:// > java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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