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Author SHA1 Message Date
Florian Weimer e2cd73a2cc tst-mallocfork2: Fix race condition, use fewer resources
The first SIGUSR1 signal could arrive when sigusr1_sender_pid
was still 0.  As a result, kill would send SIGSTOP to the
entire process group.  This would cause the test to hang before
printing any output.

This commit also adds a sched_yield to the signal source, so that
it does not flood the parent process with signals it has never a
chance to handle.

Even with these changes, tst-mallocfork2 still fails reliably
after the fix in commit commit 56290d6e76
(Increase fork signal safety for single-threaded processes) is
backed out.
2016-05-13 20:43:14 +02:00
Florian Weimer 56290d6e76 Increase fork signal safety for single-threaded processes [BZ #19703]
This provides a band-aid and addresses the scenario where fork is
called from a signal handler while the process is in the malloc
subsystem (or has acquired the libio list lock).  It does not
address the general issue of async-signal-safety of fork;
multi-threaded processes are not covered, and some glibc
subsystems have fork handlers which are not async-signal-safe.
2016-05-12 15:26:55 +02:00