SIGCHLD handler not working correctly

Ruby
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Hi,

Here’s some test code that demonstrates what I’m doing:

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#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

trap_quit = lambda { |sig|
signame = Signal.list.find {|k, v| v == sig }[0]
STDERR.puts(“Trapping signal #{signame}”)
}

huphandler = inthandler = termhandler = chldhandler = nil
huphandler = trap(“HUP”, &trap_quit)
inthandler = trap(“INT”, &trap_quit)
termhandler = trap(“TERM”, &trap_quit)

cmd_exitstatus = nil

chldhandler = trap(“CHLD”) {
STDERR.puts(“Trapping signal CHLD”)
begin
# tmppid, status = Process.wait2(cmdpid)
tmppid = Process.wait
status = $?
cmd_exitstatus = status.exitstatus
STDERR.puts("Process::Status => " + status.inspect)
STDERR.puts("exitstatus => " + cmd_exitstatus.inspect)
if ! status.exited?
raise “ARGH! The child has not exited yet!”
end
rescue Errno::ECHILD => e
STDERR.puts(“Command failed - probably ok? #{e.inspect}”)
# bah, ignore it, just means a command failed
end
}

cmdpid = fork {
begin
exec(“dd”, “if=/dev/zero”, “of=/tmp/zerofile1.asdfsdf”,
“bs=1”, “count=333000000”)
rescue Errno::ENOENT => e
STDERR.puts e.message
exit 127
end
}

while(cmd_exitstatus.nil?)
sleep 1
STDOUT.puts “still going…”
STDOUT.flush
end

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To see the problem, run the command, then press CTRL-C while it’s
running. It will say “ARGH! The child has not exited yet!”

Inside the CHLD handler, exitstatus should be the valid exit status of
the child process. However, it is nil. This is really really bad,
because it seems to imply that the child signal, which is meant to be
caught when a child exits, is being called while the child has NOT
exited.

Anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

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Asfand Yar Q. wrote the following on 15.12.2007 09:30 :

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To see the problem, run the command, then press CTRL-C while it’s
running. It will say “ARGH! The child has not exited yet!”

Inside the CHLD handler, exitstatus should be the valid exit status of
the child process.

If I’m not mistaken, there’s none because the child didn’t call exit.

However, it is nil. This is really really bad,
because it seems to imply that the child signal, which is meant to be
caught when a child exits, is being called while the child has NOT exited.

Looking at Process::Status#exited? documentation it seems it only
returns true if the process actually exited on its own. Here dd dies
because of a SIGINT (calling $?.signaled? returns true).

I’m not familiar with the signal handling details, so the following is
no more than an educated guess.
I believe that depending on the actual implementation of the signal
handler you can get different reactions to a signal relative to exit
status. Either:

  • the program aborts in the signal handler and don’t return an exit
    status,
  • the signal handler is only used to modify internal structures and
    doesn’t abort the program right away. The normal course of the program
    only checks for the exit condition so you get a delayed “normal” exit
    controlled by a signal. In this case you get an exit status.

Lionel