Perl may internally race and miss signals due to a lack of
self-pipe / eventfd / signalfd / EVFILT_SIGNAL usage.  While our
event loop paths avoid these problems by using signalfd or
EVFILT_SIGNAL, thse sleep() calls are not within the event loop.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm | 2 +-
 script/lei             | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index 005f6f7a..28dce0c5 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ sub x_it ($$) {
                if (my $signum = ($code & 127)) { # usually SIGPIPE (13)
                        $SIG{PIPE} = 'DEFAULT'; # $SIG{$signum} doesn't work
                        kill $signum, $$;
-                       sleep; # wait for signal
+                       sleep(1) while 1; # wait for signal
                } else {
                        $quit->($code >> 8);
                }
diff --git a/script/lei b/script/lei
index 58f0dbe9..40c21ad8 100755
--- a/script/lei
+++ b/script/lei
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Falling back to (slow) one-shot mode
        sigchld();
        if (my $sig = ($x_it_code & 127)) {
                kill $sig, $$;
-               sleep;
+               sleep(1) while 1;
        }
        exit($x_it_code >> 8);
 } else { # for systems lacking Socket::MsgHdr or Inline::C
--
unsubscribe: one-click, see List-Unsubscribe header
archive: https://public-inbox.org/meta/

Reply via email to