When using posix_spawn or fork to launch a child process, the parent needs to wait for the child, otherwise the dead child is left as a zombie process. For this purpose one can install a signal handler for SIGCHLD.
2019-05-19 Janne Blomqvist <j...@gcc.gnu.org> PR libfortran/90038 * intrinsics/execute_command_line (sigchld_handler): New function. (execute_command_line): Install handler for SIGCHLD. * configure.ac: Check for presence of sigaction and waitpid. * config.h.in: Regenerated. * configure: Regenerated. Regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, Ok for trunk? --- libgfortran/configure.ac | 2 +- libgfortran/intrinsics/execute_command_line.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libgfortran/configure.ac b/libgfortran/configure.ac index 8fd5a1a30a9..7cfce28ab69 100644 --- a/libgfortran/configure.ac +++ b/libgfortran/configure.ac @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ if test "${hardwire_newlib:-0}" -eq 1; then else AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE(getrusage times mkstemp strtof strtold snprintf \ ftruncate chsize chdir getentropy getlogin gethostname kill link symlink \ - sleep ttyname \ + sleep ttyname sigaction waitpid \ alarm access fork posix_spawn setmode fcntl writev \ gettimeofday stat fstat lstat getpwuid vsnprintf dup \ getcwd localtime_r gmtime_r getpwuid_r ttyname_r clock_gettime \ diff --git a/libgfortran/intrinsics/execute_command_line.c b/libgfortran/intrinsics/execute_command_line.c index 2ef2324b243..1a471632172 100644 --- a/libgfortran/intrinsics/execute_command_line.c +++ b/libgfortran/intrinsics/execute_command_line.c @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see #include <spawn.h> extern char **environ; #endif +#if defined(HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN) || defined(HAVE_FORK) +#include <signal.h> +#endif enum { EXEC_SYNCHRONOUS = -2, EXEC_NOERROR = 0, EXEC_SYSTEMFAILED, EXEC_CHILDFAILED, EXEC_INVALIDCOMMAND }; @@ -62,6 +65,14 @@ set_cmdstat (int *cmdstat, int value) } +#if defined(HAVE_WAITPID) && defined(HAVE_SIGACTION) +static void +sigchld_handler (int signum __attribute__((unused))) +{ + while (waitpid ((pid_t)(-1), NULL, WNOHANG) > 0) {} +} +#endif + static void execute_command_line (const char *command, bool wait, int *exitstat, int *cmdstat, char *cmdmsg, @@ -82,6 +93,20 @@ execute_command_line (const char *command, bool wait, int *exitstat, set_cmdstat (cmdstat, EXEC_NOERROR); +#if defined(HAVE_SIGACTION) && defined(HAVE_WAITPID) + static bool sig_init_saved; + bool sig_init = __atomic_load_n (&sig_init_saved, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); + if (!sig_init) + { + struct sigaction sa; + sa.sa_handler = &sigchld_handler; + sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask); + sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_NOCLDSTOP; + sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, 0); + __atomic_store_n (&sig_init_saved, true, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); + } +#endif + #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_SPAWN const char * const argv[] = {"sh", "-c", cmd, NULL}; if (posix_spawn (&pid, "/bin/sh", NULL, NULL, -- 2.17.1