From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev signal handler should not syslog()
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:50:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4187ACAE.7030003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4187AB17.8030909@redhat.com>
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Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Please remove any syslog() from the signal handler!
> According to
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html
> this is unsafe and we see hangups in vmware where SIGALRM is fired up.
the tdb_close() used in the signal handler, contains free() calls, which seem to be dangerous as well!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-02 15:50 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-02 15:43 udev signal handler should not syslog() Harald Hoyer
2004-11-02 15:50 ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
2004-11-02 23:42 ` Kay Sievers
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