Re: [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sat Jan 08 2022 - 13:14:49 EST


Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 05.01.2022 22:58, Eric W. Biederman пишет:
>>
>> I have not yet been able to figure out how to run gst-pluggin-scanner in
>> a way that triggers this yet. In truth I can't figure out how to
>> run gst-pluggin-scanner in a useful way.
>>
>> I am going to set up some unit tests and see if I can reproduce your
>> hang another way, but if you could give me some more information on what
>> you are doing to trigger this I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks, Eric. The distro is Arch Linux, but it's a development
> environment where I'm running latest GStreamer from git master. I'll try
> to figure out the reproduction steps and get back to you.

Thank you.

Until I can figure out why this is causing problems I have dropped the
following two patches from my queue:
signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case
signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed

I have replaced them with the following two patches that just do what
is needed for the rest of the code in the series:
signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using
signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal

Perversely my failure to change the SIGKILL handling when coredumps are
happening proves to me that I need to change the SIGKILL handling when
coredumps are happening to make the code more maintainable.

Eric