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Re: B20.1: Returning from pause() before signal handler runs?
- To: Richard.Hirst@net-tel.co.uk
- Subject: Re: B20.1: Returning from pause() before signal handler runs?
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:09:14 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 02:02:53PM +0000, Richard.Hirst@net-tel.co.uk wrote:
>Hi,
> I am running "sendmail -q1" under B20.1 on NT4.0 SP3. This should poll a
>queue directory once a minute, but I find that after a few polls it goes to
>sleep. I have provided a small test program which shows the problem.
>The parent installs ALRM and CHLD signal handlers, forks a child,
>requests an alarm tick., and calls pause(). The child exits. Sometimes
>the child exits before the parent calls pause(), sometimes not. The
>signal handlers increment counts each time they run. The parent notes
>these counts before calling pause, and again after returning from pause().
>Sometimes the parent finds that the counts havn't changed; it does a
>printf() and checks the counts again - now they have changed.
>
>It looks to me as though the parent is returning from pause() before
>the signal handler has been run.
>
>I can provoke the problem within a few cycles if I run a couple of
>copies of the program and then start up a few other programs (DevStudio,
>MSDOS boxes, etc). This is on a PII-233 with 64MB, NT4.0 SP3.
>
>If anyone could reproduce the problem, and say whether it looks like
>a cygwin bug or not, I'd appreciate it.
Looking at the code, it does appear to be a bug. I've fixed the problem
and it will be in the next snapshot.
cgf
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