Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Actually, that's a bug not just a cosmetic problem, because it introduces
> a race condition. Consider this sequence of events:
> * make launches "ccache gcc -o test.o test.c"
> * user types control-C
> * ccache receives SIGINT and exits
> * make does unlink("test.o") to clean up after failed compile step, which
> it thinks is done
> * gcc creates test.o
> * gcc receives SIGINT and exits
> We're left with a probably-broken test.o in the filesystem, despite
> make's attempt to clean up. Now, the window for this is pretty narrow,
> but I think it could happen: I don't believe that sending signals to
> multiple processes is atomic in most kernels.
Yes, sounds like a race condition that could happen.
I just pushed this change as a fix:
https://git.samba.org/?p=ccache.git;a=commitdiff;h=4fdb9580fedac9669508bef0837f46f1e9310e24.
Opinions on it are welcome.
[...] I wonder whether it's sane to do "clean_up_pending_tmp_files();" when
> gcc is still on the loose.
clean_up_pending_tmp_files only deletes temporary files used to catch the
compiler's stdout and stderr, so that shouldn't be a problem.
-- Joel
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