SIGCHLD missed epoll_wait?
I wanted to understand the behavior of signals on fork. I wrote a small program to catch SIGCHLD using epoll_wait, but when I do "kill -9" on a forked child, I get no signal and the child is in a non-return state (I have a handler that executes wait ()).
Here is the code.
//....
sigemptyset(&mask);
sigaddset(&mask, SIGCHLD);
pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &mask, NULL);
signal_fd = signalfd(-1, &mask, 0);
memset(&tev, 0, sizeof(tev));
tev.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLONESHOT;
tev.data.fd = signal_fd;
epoll_ctl(efd_, EPOLL_CTL_MOD, signal_fd, &tev);
while (1) {
child_pid_ = fork();
if (child_pid_ == 0) {
close(signal_fd);
close(efd_);
make_grand_child(); //just sleeps in while(1) and never returns.
} else {
memset(&event, 0, sizeof(event));
while (1) {
epoll_wait(efd_, &event, 1, -1);
deliver_events = (event.events & EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP|EPOLLIN|EPOLLONESHOT);
if (deliver_events) {
parent_sig_handler(SIGCHLD);
break;
}
}
}
}
UPDATE:
Used by EPOLL_CTL_MOD without first adding (EPOLL_CTL_ADD). After I changed this, it worked like a charm.
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The default SIGCHLD disclaimer is ignored. Blocking the signal will not change the location, which it just makes it signalfd
possible to process it synchronously.
Add a signal handler for SIGCHLD using signal
or sigaction
. It doesn't have to do anything as it won't get executed. Since SIGCHLD is blocked, signalfd
will consume and process it before the handler.
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