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Moved the installation of the signal handler up a little bit so it

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guaranteed to be available when the child is forked, hence, fixing a
race condition.  This used to create problems with UML and fast
machines.  Thanks to Jon Burgess <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>
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Joey Schulze 2003-09-28 10:26:22 +00:00
parent deeeb65d2b
commit ae499acae2
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@ -441,6 +441,11 @@ static char sccsid[] = "@(#)syslogd.c 5.27 (Berkeley) 10/10/88";
* Don't return a closed fd if `-a' is called with a wrong path.
* Thanks to Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> for providing
* a patch.
* Thu Aep 13 05:08:10 2001: Jon Burgess <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>
* Moved the installation of the signal handler up a little bit
* so it guaranteed to be available when the child is forked,
* hence, fixing a race condition. This used to create problems
* with UML and fast machines.
*/
@ -890,11 +895,11 @@ int main(argc, argv)
dprintf("Checking pidfile.\n");
if (!check_pid(PidFile))
{
signal (SIGTERM, doexit);
if (fork()) {
/*
* Parent process
*/
signal (SIGTERM, doexit);
sleep(300);
/*
* Not reached unless something major went wrong. 5
@ -1815,7 +1820,7 @@ void fprintlog(f, from, flags, msg)
v->iov_len = 1;
}
again:
/* f->f_file == -1 is an indicator that the we couldn't
/* f->f_file == -1 is an indicator that we couldn't
open the file at startup. */
if (f->f_file == -1)
break;