Re: Fw: F_SETSIG broken/changed in 2.6 for UDP and TCP sockets?

From: Russell Leighton
Date: Sat Jun 05 2004 - 10:11:54 EST


Last issue resolved. I am posting so there is a complete thread for anyone that stumbles on this in the future.

F_SETSIG IS working...what is NOT working (as it did in 2.4) is the interaction between clone() and getpid() in child processes.
This issue altered the control of my program and made it look like I was not receiving signals.

I'll send another email to the kernel mailing list w/a test program that demonstrates this.

Russell Leighton wrote:


Thanks to all that helped me troubleshoot.

Of the 2 issues I had with FedoraCore2, one problem is solved:

* Multicast issues were solved by using another NIC. It seems that
the driver for the NatSemi DP8381[56] does not receive mutlicast
properly.
* F_SETSIG still seems broken for TCP for me when my process sets up
more than a few fd's...I will try the latest kernel to see if this
goes away


Russ

Andrew Morton wrote:

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:45:08 -0400
From: Russell Leighton <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: F_SETSIG broken/changed in 2.6 for UDP and TCP sockets?



I have a program that works fine under stock rh9 (2.4.2-8) but has issues getting signaled under FedoraCore2 (2.6.5-1.358)
using SETSIG to a Posix RT signal.

The program does the standard:

/* hook to process */
if ( fcntl(fdcallback->fd, F_SETOWN, mon->handler_q.thread->pid) == -1 ) {
aw_log(fdcallback->handler->logger, AW_ERROR_LOG_LEVEL,
"cannot set owner on fd (%s)",
strerror(errno));
}/* end if */

/* make async */
if ( fcntl(fdcallback->fd, F_SETFL, (O_NONBLOCK | O_ASYNC) ) == -1 ) {
aw_log(fdcallback->handler->logger, AW_ERROR_LOG_LEVEL,
"cannot set async on fd (%s)",
strerror(errno));
}/* end if */

/* hook to signal */
if ( fcntl(fdcallback->fd, F_SETSIG, AW_SIG_FD) == -1 ) {
aw_log(fdcallback->handler->logger, AW_ERROR_LOG_LEVEL,
"cannot set signal on fd (%s)",
strerror(errno));
}/* end if */

Under Fedora things work well for raw sockets (much lower latency than in 2.4!) but are inconsistent with udp or tcp sockets.

In the udp case, I when I listen for multicast packets my app only receives them when I am running a tcpdump (bizarre!).

In the tcp case, I don't get signaled if I do the F_SETSIG on more than 1 fd.

Any tips on tracking this down would be much appreciated.

Thx

Russ

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