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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2021-01-19 09:26:31 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2021-06-28 15:55:56 -0300
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posix: Add _Fork [BZ #4737]
Austin Group issue 62 [1] dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for fork and provided a async-signal-safe _Fork replacement that does not run the atfork handlers. It will be included in the next POSIX standard. It allow to close a long standing issue to make fork AS-safe (BZ#4737). As indicated on the bug, besides the internal lock for the atfork handlers itself; there is no guarantee that the handlers itself will not introduce more AS-safe issues. The idea is synchronize fork with the required internal locks to allow children in multithread processes to use mostly of standard function (even though POSIX states only AS-safe function should be used). On signal handles, _Fork should be used intead and only AS-safe functions should be used. For testing, the new tst-_Fork only check basic usage. I also added a new tst-mallocfork3 which uses the same strategy to check for deadlock of tst-mallocfork2 but using threads instead of subprocesses (and it does deadlock if it replaces _Fork with fork). [1] https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=62
Diffstat (limited to 'posix/Makefile')
-rw-r--r--posix/Makefile3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/posix/Makefile b/posix/Makefile
index 3bd7d605df..e91ea25ba1 100644
--- a/posix/Makefile
+++ b/posix/Makefile
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ test-srcs := globtest
tests += wordexp-test tst-exec tst-spawn tst-spawn2 tst-spawn3
endif
ifeq (yesyes,$(build-shared)$(have-thread-library))
-tests += tst-getopt-cancel
+tests += tst-getopt-cancel tst-_Fork
endif
tests-static = tst-exec-static tst-spawn-static
tests += $(tests-static)
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ $(objpfx)ptestcases.h: PTESTS PTESTS2C.sed
$(objpfx)runptests.o: $(objpfx)ptestcases.h
$(objpfx)tst-getopt-cancel: $(shared-thread-library)
+$(objpfx)tst-_Fork: $(shared-thread-library)
test-xfail-annexc = yes
$(objpfx)annexc.out: $(objpfx)annexc