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-rw-r--r--src/event/SignalMonitor.cxx23
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f12530e60..df6b14373 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ ver 0.18.9 (not yet released)
- vorbis: fix linker failure when libvorbis/libogg are static
* encoder
- vorbis: fix another linker failure
+* output
+ - pipe: fix hanging child process due to blocked signals
ver 0.18.8 (2014/02/07)
* decoder
diff --git a/src/event/SignalMonitor.cxx b/src/event/SignalMonitor.cxx
index 8c8527a77..eda52aba1 100644
--- a/src/event/SignalMonitor.cxx
+++ b/src/event/SignalMonitor.cxx
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
#include <algorithm>
+#ifdef USE_SIGNALFD
+#include <pthread.h>
+#endif
+
class SignalMonitor final : private SocketMonitor {
#ifdef USE_SIGNALFD
SignalFD fd;
@@ -99,7 +103,21 @@ static std::atomic_bool signal_pending[MAX_SIGNAL];
static Manual<SignalMonitor> monitor;
-#ifndef USE_SIGNALFD
+#ifdef USE_SIGNALFD
+
+/**
+ * This is a pthread_atfork() callback that unblocks the signals that
+ * were blocked for our signalfd(). Without this, our child processes
+ * would inherit the blocked signals.
+ */
+static void
+at_fork_child()
+{
+ sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &signal_mask, nullptr);
+}
+
+#else
+
static void
SignalCallback(int signo)
{
@@ -108,6 +126,7 @@ SignalCallback(int signo)
if (!signal_pending[signo].exchange(true))
monitor->WakeUp();
}
+
#endif
void
@@ -115,6 +134,8 @@ SignalMonitorInit(EventLoop &loop)
{
#ifdef USE_SIGNALFD
sigemptyset(&signal_mask);
+
+ pthread_atfork(nullptr, nullptr, at_fork_child);
#endif
monitor.Construct(loop);