SIGCHLD race condition?

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:01:31PM -0500, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -0500, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > SSHD would still only exit IFF (child is dead && child fildes are dead).
> >
> > The pipe trick is merely a race avoidance technique.

[...]

> > Wrong thread, methinks. This is the sigchld-arrived-before-entering-
> > select()-but-after-checking-child_terminated-and-client-has-nothing-
> > to-send-and-the-child's-fildes-are-closed-therefore-sshd-ends-up-
> > waiting-forever-in-select()-for-the-client-to-send-something thread.
> >
> 
> It is related..  The other thread is
> sigchld-arrived-before-select-not-all-file-descriptors-are-closed-select-
> hangs-until-either-a-bit-of-data-appears (IE sleep 30&exit)
> or-hangs-forever (IE vi file, ctrl-Z, ctrl-d).
> 
> It is the same bug in reality.

Yes. But then, when should SSHD exit? Is the above condition correct?
I.e., (child is dead && child fildes are dead)?

Ultimately, the guy who suggested the pipe technique want to know which
solution you're open to so he knows which to code.

So the question is: would the pipe trick satisfy you OpenSSH gods
[provided it works as advertised, of course], or is it still too
earthly? :)

> - Ben


Nico
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