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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-12-07 19:00:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-12-08 15:17:01 +0000 |
| commit | 73d46261344d5bd05c0940bc2ec5f9ed9a47db1b (patch) | |
| tree | a8f47c3c6d786de38da1688a8af5b920be31de6a /NEWS | |
| parent | 7ac41f995014067dd4f9eb6f75875f44f761e49a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-73d46261344d5bd05c0940bc2ec5f9ed9a47db1b.tar.xz | |
timeout: fix failure if timeout's parent has ignored SIGCHLD
* src/timeout.c (main): Reset the SIGCHLD handler to the default
as otherwise wait() could return -1 and set errno to ECHILD.
This condition was ignored until commit 0b1dcf33, on 31-08-2009,
"timeout: defensive handling of all wait() errors"
but subsequently timeout would run the command correctly
but then fail with an error message.
* tests/misc/timeout: In a subshell set the CHLD handler to
SIG_IGN to ensure the timeout command resets it to SIG_DFL.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- the presence of the empty string argument. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0] + timeout is now immune to the signal handling of its parent. + Specifically timeout now doesn't exit with an error message + if its parent ignores CHLD signals. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.6] * Noteworthy changes in release 8.1 (2009-11-18) [stable] |