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From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
To: Supervision <supervision@list.skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: runit: why ignore SIGCONT for stages?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:45:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211127154544.750cef22@mydesk.domain.cxm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADQ2Nw_XzzrCsdGDsP50E8rCYPZhYN_+p-MJ2yv1aBqafvJxnA@mail.gmail.com>

Guillermo said on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:05:14 -0300

>This was meant for the mailing list. I accidentally replied to the
>author instead. Sorry Leah!
>
>El mar, 23 nov 2021 a las 9:18, Leah Neukirchen escribió:
>>
>> [...] This seems to be due to runit(8) before execing
>> into the stages:
>>
>>       sig_unblock(sig_cont);
>>       sig_ignore(sig_cont);
>> ...
>>       strerr_warn3(INFO, "enter stage: ", stage[st], 0);
>>       execve(*prog, (char *const *)prog, envp);
>>
>> [...] Can someone explain why?  
>
>I guess only the author can provide an authoritative answer, but this
>looks like a bug. It is possible that sig_uncatch() was meant here.
>That's what the code calls for the other two signals that runit(8)
>catches (SIGCHLD and SIGINT).
>
>sig_ignore() makes no sense here, wouldn't that make 'sv cont' useless
>for processes of the init system's supervision tree?

It would seem so, and yet sv cont mydaemon starts up a paused mydaemon.

So there's something we're missing.


SteveT

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-27 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-23 12:17 Leah Neukirchen
2021-11-23 18:28 ` Steve Litt
2021-11-27 20:05 ` Guillermo
2021-11-27 20:45   ` Steve Litt [this message]

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