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Re: scratch/sigchld-fd 8f0ce42 1/2: Fix deadlock when receiving SIGCHLD


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: scratch/sigchld-fd 8f0ce42 1/2: Fix deadlock when receiving SIGCHLD during 'pselect'.
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:17:24 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.90 (gnu/linux)

On Jan 20 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> If/when the signal arrives, the handler removes the file descriptor of the 
> process from the set on which pselect will wait.  Isn't that sufficient to 
> prevent us from waiting for a dead process?

Who removes it?

> If not, why not?

What happens when the signal occurs between setting up the set and
calling pselect?

Andreas.

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