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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 16:48:43 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.90 (gnu/linux)

On Jan 20 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> So maybe this is the problem we should solve: make the SIGCHLD handler
> reset the bit of the process's output from the fd_set passed to
> pselect.

You cannot do that.  That creates races all over the place.

Andreas.

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