[kerberos-discuss] LDAP & Kerberos interaction & SIGPIPE

[Tom Yu]

Peter Shoults <Peter.Shoults at Sun.COM> writes:

> On 09/25/09 13:17, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:17:00PM -0400, Tom Yu wrote:
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>     
>         I was puzzled at why sigaction() was not being used to set up the
>         SIGPIPE handler, and it looks like the MIT code is using sigaction(),
>         but OpenSolaris is not, for some reason.
>             
>         
>    
>     My guess: MIT fixed this eons ago and we didn't.  The fork of this
>     particular bit of code may go back to the late 90s.
>     
>     Nico
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>     
>
> That did not get picked up on the re-syncs?
>
> OK - fine - I will open a new CR about the signal() to sigaction().  If I
> change to sigaction() are we all good with the fix as proposed?

Correctly using sigaction() for establishing the handlers will obviate
the need to call signal() from inside the handlers.