[perl #114586] Signals and exec() interaction

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In despatch_signals in mg.c there's a comment explaining how perl
tries to emulate a behaviour of real signals in safe signals:

            /* From sigaction(2) (FreeBSD man page):
             * | Signal routines normally execute with the signal that
             * | caused their invocation blocked, but other signals may
             * | yet occur.
             * Emulation of this behavior (from within Perl) is enabled
             * using sigprocmask
             */

However there's an issue in the emulation: if a signal handler
directly calls exec() the signal is never unblocked, because the
destructor/clean up function set up in Perl_despatch_signals isn't
called.

David

• [perl #114586] Signals and exec() interaction by David Leadbeater
• Re: [perl #114586] Signals and exec() interaction by Leon Timmermans