On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Rich Felker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 12:04:31PM -0700, enh wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 04/27/2015 11:26 AM, enh wrote: >> >>>> it would also result in things like top(1) not exiting. >> >>> >> >>> If top is using stdio, it's easy to add a single ferror(stdout) check >> >>> to the main loop. If it's using write(), it _must_ be checking for >> >>> errors anyway since write can always return with a short/partial >> >>> write. But top is unlikely to be hooked up to a pipe or socket anyway; >> >>> it normally needs a terminal. >> >> >> >> the point is that then people need to think. if that were a plausible >> >> solution, this thread wouldn't exist. the advantage of the signal >> >> handler is that humans can keep on being humans. >> > >> > I _so_ should have called this project Dorodango. (See >> > http://www.dorodango.com.) >> > >> > The point of this project is to do things right. I want to _fix_ >> > everything I can. My insane cleanup review passes involve trying to find >> > all this stuff and make sure we get it right. >> > >> > Sure, outside toybox yay sigpipe. But inside, the question is what the >> > correct behavior should be. >> > >> > It sounds like android wants _exit(0) >> >> no, not particularly. we're arguing internally about whether SIGPIPE >> is a crash or not. i think even undoing the dynamic linker's >> installation of a crash reporter by setting it back to SIG_DFL would >> be fine for toybox --- the real problem is that the dynamic linker >> doesn't know whether it's dealing with an Android app (where you >> probably do want the crash reporting) or a command-line tool (where >> you probably don't), let alone corner cases like a command-line tool >> that's implemented in Java. > > In that case the crash-reporting signal handler setup should be in the > Android app init code, not the dynamic linker, no?
there are a large number of native-only daemons running on the average Android device, most of which we only see as binary blobs. -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
