xserver: Branch 'master'
Adam Jackson
ajax at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue Sep 11 08:49:08 PDT 2007
os/utils.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
New commits:
diff-tree a5b8053606d6e786cdcf6734f271acc05f9cc588 (from 2e3e08d31e908ceadeef16d6069cdaf8c61d7ed1)
Author: Adam Jackson <ajax at benzedrine.nwnk.net>
Date: Tue Sep 11 11:37:06 2007 -0400
Ignore - not just block - SIGALRM around Popen()/Pclose().
Because our "popen" implementation uses stdio, and because nobody's stdio
library is capable of surviving signals, we need to make absolutely sure
that we hide the SIGALRM from the smart scheduler. Otherwise, when you
open a menu in openoffice, and it recompiles XKB to deal with the
accelerators, and you popen xkbcomp because we suck, then the scheduler
will tell you you're taking forever doing something stupid, and the
wait() code will get confused, and input will hang and your CPU usage
slams to 100%. Down, not across.
diff --git a/os/utils.c b/os/utils.c
index 3bb7dbe..afcaae4 100644
--- a/os/utils.c
+++ b/os/utils.c
@@ -1720,6 +1720,8 @@ static struct pid {
int pid;
} *pidlist;
+static sighandler_t old_alarm = NULL; /* XXX horrible awful hack */
+
pointer
Popen(char *command, char *type)
{
@@ -1741,11 +1743,15 @@ Popen(char *command, char *type)
return NULL;
}
+ /* Ignore the smart scheduler while this is going on */
+ old_alarm = signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
+
switch (pid = fork()) {
case -1: /* error */
close(pdes[0]);
close(pdes[1]);
xfree(cur);
+ signal(SIGALRM, old_alarm);
return NULL;
case 0: /* child */
if (setgid(getgid()) == -1)
@@ -1921,6 +1927,8 @@ Pclose(pointer iop)
/* allow EINTR again */
OsReleaseSignals ();
+ signal(SIGALRM, old_alarm);
+
return pid == -1 ? -1 : pstat;
}
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