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From: "Miguel Freitas" <mfreitas@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advice on debuging the fork syscall hanging forever
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:05:09 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9eabcda0704250805w73279d07i4655f47fa00c2ff0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9eabcda0704250746j26c67d03wc971c4ca32312ca1@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/25/07, Miguel Freitas <mfreitas@gmail.com> wrote:
> hey, could it be that this -513 is actually -ERESTARTNOINTR?

if so, that would be a good explanation why it hangs.

- copy_process() checks for pending signals, then set retval =
-ERESTARTNOINTR and returns.

- handle_signal has the following code:

                        case -ERESTARTNOINTR:
                                regs->rax = regs->orig_rax;
                                regs->rip -= 2;
                                break;

looks like it will keep trying to reenter the syscall forever,
subtracting 2 from ip will restart the syscall. by some reason the
signal is never really handled.

Miguel

      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-25 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 14:21 Miguel Freitas
2007-04-25 14:46 ` Miguel Freitas
2007-04-25 15:05   ` Miguel Freitas [this message]

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