udev signal handler should not syslog()

udev signal handler should not syslog()

[Harald Hoyer]

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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.

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Re: udev signal handler should not syslog()

[Harald Hoyer]

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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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Re: udev signal handler should not syslog()

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:43:19PM +0100, 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.

Right, this should be fixed. I'll wait for a decision regarding the
tdb code. If the multi-file-db will work well for the thousands of
disks setup, all this stuff will go anyway.

udev_log="no" in /etc/udev/udev.conf should fix that in the meantime
for users running into trouble with that.

Thanks,
Kay



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