Another showstopper in 2.2.5

[Fredrik Ohrn]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 jra at dp.samba.org wrote:

> 
> smbd should never get a SIGPIPE.
> 
> Look at this fragment of code from smbd/server.c :
> 
>         fault_setup((void (*)(void *))exit_server);
>         CatchSignal(SIGTERM , SIGNAL_CAST sig_term);
>         CatchSignal(SIGHUP,SIGNAL_CAST sig_hup);
> 
>         /* we are never interested in SIGPIPE */
>         BlockSignals(True,SIGPIPE);
> 
> 
> We ignore SIGPIPE at server startup, it was added about 10 years ago :-).
> 
> Can you give more details about getting SIGPIPE in smbd ? What platform,
> etc.
> 

I see this on 2 boxes, one running Mandrake 8.2 and the other RedHat 7.3

It happens on both the included 'distro' kernels and on a plain 2.4.19 
kernel.

The glibc is glibc-2.2.4-25mdk.rpm on mandrake and glibc-2.2.5-36.rpm on 
RedHat.


/Fredrik

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Fredrik Öhrn                               Chalmers University of Technology
ohrn at chl.chalmers.se                                                  Sweden