OpenSSH, unreliable signals, SA_RESTART and sigaction

[Darren Tucker]

Hi folks.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 at 19:10, Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> wrote:

> [...]
> *** SA_RESTART
>
> OpenSSH currently uses a wrapper function ("mysignal") around that
> implements mostly BSD signal semantics.
>

I have just committed code to put SA_RESTART back into the mysignal wrapper
making it, as far as I can tell, fully implement BSD reliable signal
semantics. This was know to cause problems in the past, so committing this
early in the release cycle gives the maximum chance to shake out problems
before the next release.

If you still use systems suspected of having problems with this in the past
(based on the list archives, that's likely to be HP-UX 10 or UnixWare 2)
please test this before the next release.  If we do discover any currently
in use platforms that have problems with this we'll look at disabling it
just for those platforms.

Thanks.

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