RE: [RFC PATCH 1/5] signal: Teach sigsuspend to use set_user_sigmask

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: David Laight
> Sent: 12 June 2019 15:18
> From: Oleg Nesterov
> > Sent: 12 June 2019 14:46
> > On 06/11, David Laight wrote:
> > >
> > > If I have an application that has a loop with a pselect call that
> > > enables SIGINT (without a handler) and, for whatever reason,
> > > one of the fd is always 'ready' then I'd expect a SIGINT
> > > (from ^C) to terminate the program.
> >
> > This was never true.
> >
> > Before Eric's patches SIGINT can kill a process or not, depending on timing.
> > In particular, if SIGINT was already pending before pselect() and it finds
> > an already ready fd, the program won't terminate.
> 
> Which matches what I see on a very old Linux system.
> 
> > After the Eric's patches SIGINT will only kill the program if pselect() does
> > not find a ready fd.
> >
> > And this is much more consistent. Now we can simply say that the signal will
> > be delivered only if pselect() fails and returns -EINTR. If it doesn't have
> > a handler the process will be killed, otherwise the handler will be called.
> 
> But is it what the standards mandate?
> Can anyone check how Solaris and any of the BSDs behave?
> I don't have access to any solaris systems (I doubt I'll get the disk to
> spin on the one in my garage).
> I can check NetBSD when I get home.

I tested NetBSD last night.
pselect() always calls the signal handlers even when an fd is ready.
I'm beginning to suspect that this is the 'standards conforming' behaviour.
I don't remember when pselect() was added to the ToG specs, it didn't
go through XNET while I  was going to the meetings.

	David

> 
> The ToG page for pselect() http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pselect.html
> says:
>     "If sigmask is not a null pointer, then the pselect() function shall replace
>     the signal mask of the caller by the set of signals pointed to by sigmask
>     before examining the descriptors, and shall restore the signal mask of the
>     calling thread before returning."
> Note that it says 'before examining the descriptors' not 'before blocking'.
> Under the general description about signals it also says that the signal handler
> will be called (or other action happen) when a pending signal is unblocked.
> So unblocking SIGINT (set to SIG_DFL) prior to examining the descriptors
> should be enough to cause the process to exit.
> The fact that signal handlers are not called until 'return to user'
> is really an implementation choice - but (IMHO) it should appear as if they
> were called at the time they became unmasked.
> 
> If nothing else the man pages need a note about the standards and portability.
> 
> 	David

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