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Re: Improving Shepherd


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Improving Shepherd
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:25:50 +0100
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Heya,

Jelle Licht <address@hidden> skribis:

> Good news: signfalfd seems to work as far as I can see. I am not quite sure
> how to make it work consistently with guile ports yet though. 

Good!  What do you mean by “work with guile ports” though?

> To make use of signalfd, one normally masks signals so that these can 
> handled via signalfd instead of the default signal handlers; any process
> forked start out with the same signal mask, so we would need to make
> sure to either reset the signal mask for spawned processes. 

Right, we could do that in ‘exec-command’, which is the central place
for fork+exec.

Well, let us know what to do next, then!  :-)

Ludo’.



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