[illumos-Developer] Webrev for bug 1155: in.ftpd sometimes starts with SIGALRM blocked

[Gary Mills]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 08:29:08AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> This is for illumos bug 1155: in.ftpd sometimes starts with SIGALRM
> blocked.  My webrev is at:
> 
>     URL: http://cr.illumos.org/view/veyp07d0/illumos1155/

Any interest in this one?  So far I've had no reviews.

> I have hard evidence that inetd will occasionally start a controlled
> service with SIGALRM blocked.  This causes timeouts in the service to
> fail.  My fix clears the signal mask after the fork() but before the
> service is exec()'ed.
> 
> Note that I have not determined how this signal becomes blocked in
> inetd.  SIGALRM or alarm() do not appear in the code.  My fix is
> defensive in nature, and does solve the timeout problem in controlled
> services.  In brief testing, it has no negative side effects.

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