Jie Yu created MESOS-1197:
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Summary: Adding signal safe os::system
Key: MESOS-1197
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1197
Project: Mesos
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: Jie Yu
There exist a few scenarios in which we need to execute a shell command inside
the child context (has to be signal safe). For example, in this review:
https://reviews.apache.org/r/20026/
However, the existing os::system is not async signal safe because ::system is
not async signal safe. The main issue is because ::system has to deal with
signal semantics:
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The system() function hands the argument command to the command interpreter
sh(1). The calling process waits for the shell to finish executing the command,
ignoring SIGINT and SIGQUIT, and blocking SIGCHLD.
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We have two options here:
1) make the existing os::system signal safe, but it's semantics will be
slightly different from ::system
2) add a new function: os::safeSystem
Let me know your thoughts!
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