Yo Hal! On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 23:25:00 -0700 Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> g...@rellim.com said:
> > Check out "man 7 signal", almost nothing is legal to call from
> > within a signal. You can't even open() of fopen() anything. About
> > the best you can do is write(STDERR,) and exit().
>
> Right. I was wondering if there was any software that would check
> that.
Well, there is some wetware that can do that. Or better yet, as the
man page says, just don't use signal().
> For ntpd, writing to STDERR doesn't work since it's a daemon and has
> nuked STDOUT and STDERR. syslog(3) isn't on the approved list.
Ain't it a bitch.
> The call restrictions mean that you can't longjmp out of a signal
> unless you know you were't doing anything dangerous when the signal
> went off. After the jump, you are still in the signal handler.
Yup. The best you can do is set a flag and return.
> On the other hand, it mostly works
Yeah, be sure to put that in your man page: It mostly works.
> so all sorts of web pages show you
> how to do it without mentioning the restrictions. In the case of
> ntpq, it's likely to be doing a DNS lookup.
DNS lookups time out in 5 or 10 seconds, so easy to just set a flag and
return, then let the main loop commit suicide with dignity.
RGDS
GARY
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