sheel: improve comments on signal handling
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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@@ -64,15 +64,27 @@ This poses much more serious limitations on what applet can do:
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* do not use shared global data, or save/restore shared global data
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(e.g. bb_common_bufsiz1) prior to returning.
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- getopt32() is ok to use. You do not need to save/restore option_mask32,
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it is already done by core code.
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xfunc_error_retval, and logmode - it is already done by core code.
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* if you allocate memory, you can use xmalloc() only on the very first
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allocation. All other allocations should use malloc[_or_warn]().
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After first allocation, you cannot use any xfuncs.
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Otherwise, failing xfunc will return to caller applet
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without freeing malloced data!
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* All allocated data, opened files, signal handlers, termios settings,
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O_NONBLOCK flags etc should be freed/closed/restored prior to return.
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* ...
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* the same applies to other resources, such as open fds: no xfuncs after
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acquiring them!
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* All allocated data, opened files, signal handlers, termios settings
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etc should be freed/closed/restored prior to return.
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Currently, ash shell signal handling is implemented in a way that signals
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have non-SA_RESTARTed handlers. This means that system calls can
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return EINTR. An example of such problem is "yes" applet:
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it is implemented so that it has a writing loop, this loop is exited on
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any write error, and in the case of user pressing ^C the error was EINTR.
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The problem is, the error causes stdout FILE* object to get into error
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state, needing clearerr() - or else subsequent shell output will also
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not work. ("yes" has been downgraded to NOEXEC, since hush signal handling
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does not have this problem - which makes "yes" to not exit on ^C (bug).
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But stray EINTRs can be seen in any NOFORK under ash, until ash is fixed).
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NOFORK applets give the most of speed advantage, but are trickiest
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to implement. In order to minimize amount of bugs and maintenance,
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@@ -82,6 +94,8 @@ frequently executed from shell/find/xargs, particularly in shell
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script loops. Applets which mess with signal handlers, termios etc
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are probably not worth the effort.
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Applets which must be interruptible by ^C in shells can not be NOFORKs.
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Any NOFORK applet is also a NOEXEC applet.
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@@ -94,7 +108,7 @@ API to call NOFORK applets is two functions:
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First one is directly used by shells if FEATURE_SH_NOFORK=y.
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Second one is used by many applets, but main users are xargs and find.
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It itself calls run_nofork_applet(), if argv[0] turned out to be a name
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It itself calls run_nofork_applet(), if argv[0] is a name
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of a NOFORK applet.
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run_nofork_applet() saves/inits/restores option parsing, xfunc_error_retval,
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