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diff --git a/open_issues/select_vs_signals.mdwn b/open_issues/select_vs_signals.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db616acb --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/select_vs_signals.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_glibc]] + + +# `sudo` + +`sudo [task]` hands after finishing `[task]`. + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-04-02 + + <youpi> the sudo bug is select() not being able to get interrupted by + signals + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-01-05 + +In context of [[alarm_setitimer]]. + + <youpi> it's a know issue in select + <youpi> it's not interruptible by a SIGALRM for instance + <youpi> which is what ntpdate uses + <youpi> when __io_select is used, it *is* interruptible + <youpi> but when __mach_msg is used, it is *not* interruptible + <youpi> it happens that by luck, ntpdate uses just one fd, and thus it's + __io_select which is used, and thus it gets an interruption after 1s + (instead of after 60s, the timeout) + <youpi> with braunr's patch, it's __mach_msg which is used to wait, and + thus the interruption doesn't happen, and we have to wait 60s, the + timeout... + <youpi> so braunr's patch is still correct, it's the __mach_msg call which + we do need to make interruptible (it was already on the todolist) + +Proposed patch: [[!message-id +"20130105162817.GW5965@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr"]]. + + +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-01-15 + + <_d3f> Hello, any one else having problems with git? + <braunr> _d3f: yes + <braunr> _d3f: it will be fixed in the next glibc release + <_d3f> oh thx. what was the problem? + <braunr> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2013-01/msg00005.html + <WhiteKIBA> exactly this problem is preventing us building glibc + <braunr> it's indeed very annoying + <braunr> and this fix will probably have a visible and positive effect on + other issues + <_d3f> let's hope so. + <braunr> well, i'm already using it and see the difference + +--- + +See also [[select]] and [[select_bogus_fd]]. |