2 * Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
4 * Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
6 /** \file signal.c Signal handling functions. */
16 static int signal_pipe[2];
19 * Initialize the paraslash signal subsystem.
21 * This function creates a pipe, the signal pipe, to deliver pending
22 * signals to the application (Bernstein's trick). It should be called
23 * during the application's startup part, followed by subsequent calls
24 * to para_install_sighandler() for each signal that should be caught.
26 * para_signal_init() installs a generic signal handler which is used for all
27 * signals simultaneously. When a signal arrives, this generic signal handler
28 * writes the corresponding signal number to the signal pipe so that the
29 * application can test for pending signals simply by checking the signal pipe
30 * for reading, e.g. by using the select(2) system call.
32 * \return This function either succeeds or calls exit(2) to terminate
33 * the current process. On success, the file descriptor of the signal pipe is
36 int para_signal_init(void)
39 if (pipe(signal_pipe) < 0) {
40 ret = -ERRNO_TO_PARA_ERROR(errno);
43 ret = mark_fd_nonblocking(signal_pipe[0]);
46 ret = mark_fd_nonblocking(signal_pipe[1]);
49 return signal_pipe[0];
51 PARA_EMERG_LOG("%s\n", para_strerror(-ret));
56 * just write one integer to signal pipe
58 static void generic_signal_handler(int s)
60 write(signal_pipe[1], &s, sizeof(int));
61 //fprintf(stderr, "got sig %i, write returned %d\n", s, ret);
67 * \param pid In case a child died, its pid is returned here.
69 * Call waitpid() and print a log message containing the pid and the cause of
72 * \return A (negative) paraslash error code on errors, zero, if no child died,
73 * one otherwise. If and only if the function returns one, the content of \a
78 int para_reap_child(pid_t *pid)
81 *pid = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG);
86 return -ERRNO_TO_PARA_ERROR(errno);
87 if (WIFEXITED(status))
88 PARA_DEBUG_LOG("child %i exited. Exit status: %i\n", (int)*pid,
90 else if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
91 PARA_DEBUG_LOG("child %i was killed by signal %i\n", (int)*pid,
94 PARA_WARNING_LOG("child %i terminated abormally\n", (int)*pid);
99 * Paraslash's zombie killer.
101 * It just calls \p para_reap_child() until there are no more children left to
104 void para_reap_children(void)
108 while (para_reap_child(&pid) > 0)
113 * wrapper around signal(2)
114 * \param sig the number of the signal to catch
116 * This installs the generic signal handler for the given signal.
117 * \return This function returns 1 on success and \p -E_SIGNAL_SIG_ERR on errors.
120 int para_install_sighandler(int sig)
122 PARA_DEBUG_LOG("catching signal %d\n", sig);
123 return signal(sig, &generic_signal_handler) == SIG_ERR? -E_SIGNAL_SIG_ERR : 1;
127 * return number of next pending signal
129 * This should be called if the fd for the signal pipe is ready for reading.
131 * \return On success, the number of the received signal is returned. \p
132 * -E_SIGNAL_READ is returned if a read error occurred while reading the signal
133 * pipe. If the read was interrupted by another signal the function returns 0.
135 int para_next_signal(void)
140 r = read(signal_pipe[0], &s, sizeof(s));
141 if (r == sizeof(s)) {
142 PARA_DEBUG_LOG("next signal: %d\n", s);
145 return r < 0 && (errno != EAGAIN)? 0 : -E_SIGNAL_READ;
149 * Close the signal pipe.
151 void para_signal_shutdown(void)
153 close(signal_pipe[1]);