[Rpm-maint] RFC: Unblocking of signals within rpm

[Michael Schroeder]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:58:29PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> Attached patch turns the signal handling within rpmdb upside down: we no 
> longer run the whole damn thing with termination signals blocked with 
> occasional checking possibly resulting in exit() from deep within rpmlib, 
> but instead have an active signal handler that will mop up any open 
> transactions and iterators and pass on the signal to caller.

Whoa, doing complex things in a signal handler is very dangerous.
You can interrupt rpm deep inside some glibc function like "malloc".

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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