On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Shentino <shent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> How would you manage to have it masked at that point? setup_new_exec() >> is inevitable after success of flush_old_exec() and it will do >> flush_signal_handlers() for us. > > I wouldn't know for sure but I read somewhere that even if execve > resets handled signals, it didn't also say that ignored signals were > also reset. (Source: execve man page.)
Also, apologies for the terminology mix-up. By masked, I mean that the signal was ignored as directed by userspace a-la signal(SIGSEGV, SIG_IGN). Plus I *think* that signal ignore masks are preserved across an exec. Again, I might just be a clueless newbie here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
