[PATCH] rsync kills all user processes on fork failure

[Martin Pool]

On  9 May 2002, Bob Byrnes <byrnes at curl.com> wrote:
> On May 9,  4:51pm, dwd at bell-labs.com (Dave Dykstra) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: [PATCH] rsync kills all user processes on fork failure
> >
> > What's the best fix against the current CVS?  Should we back out the
> > previous fix because that one only solved half the problem?  Somebody
> > please provide an updated patch.
> > 
> -- End of excerpt from Dave Dykstra
> 
> I've appended an updated patch that can be applied to the current CVS.
> 
> Description:
> 
> 	--  Be extra careful: reject any negative pid in do_fork(),
> 	    not just -1 (since other negative values would also be
> 	    harmful if they were ever passed to kill, even though
> 	    such values should never occur).

OK

> 	--  Expand all_pids[] dynamically as needed in do_fork(), to
> 	    avoid any possibility of overflow.

I can't see any situation in which that would happen.  I can understand
being defensive, but this seems like overkill.

> 	--  Prevent kill(-1, SIGUSR2) in main.c; this is independent of
> 	    the interaction between do_fork() and kill_all(), which
> 	    involves SIGUSR1.

Good.

-- 
Martin