Weird signal handling bug 221635

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:15 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

>                 reap_children (0);
> 
What does this function do?  I smell another bug that I'll tell you all
about if you admit that you call wait() here <g>

> While I've weakened the assertion upstream for other reasons (i.e. the
> assert function isn't async-signal-safe, though that wouldn't cause this
> bug), and may well propose this for 8.04.1, it worries me that a signal
> handler is being called with a signal number that wasn't requested by
> sigaction; the consequences might be more serious elsewhere. Can anyone
> see anything wrong with my code, or think of a kernel bug that might
> cause this?
> 
What _was_ the signum it was being called with?

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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