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!