Lähettäjä: Tom Kistner Päiväys: Vastaanottaja: Lutz Preßler Kopio: exim-users, poeml Aihe: Re: [exim] sigprocmask Re: exim -qTIME not starting queue runners
on some Linux system
Lutz Preßler schrieb:
>> Anyway - no Exim topic.
> Thinking a little bit more about it: maybe it is.
> Signal handling in different POSIX OSes seems to be
> difficult, but why is Exim not unblocking SIGALRM with
> sigprocmask in daemon.c to guard against such a problem?
Because it expects to inherit a halfway-sane mask from the spawning
process? :) Signals may also be blocked on purpose (Although I admit I
can't think of a reason to block ALRM when running an exim listener).
Regardless of such a fix in Exim, I still think something is wrong with
the host system.
