Richard Henderson wrote:
: There are known problems building nfs, lockd, autofs, etc because
: they muck with signals in nasty ways and it is not clear to me what
: is intended, especially in the presense of queued signals. My first
: reaction is why should they have to be mucking with SIGPIPE anyway?
Because when e.g. a mount client dies and mountd attempts to write
to the socket, it receives a SIGPIPE. Both mountd and the user-space nfsd
both re-read the exports file on SIGHUP, and unfsd also needs SIGALRM
to clean up its file handle cache occasionally. What is it exactly
that gives you headaches?
Olaf
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