On Aug 12 2007 17:00, Alan Cox wrote:
>> when a pipe/socket is broken, the process trying to read/write to it
>> gets SIGPIPE. Is there a way to detect whether the next read/write will
>> trigger a SIGPIPE? select() does not seem helpful here.
>Processes that are network aware normally set SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN.
>The default behaviour comes from a desire that non aware programs
>shouldn't get stuck spinning on a network error but go away.
>
>If you ignore the signal you'll get a event from select, and then an
>error code.
>
Yes, SIGPIPE is ignored, because it just occurs at the same time I
can check read() for -1 [=too late].
>
>select considers the broken pipe an error that needs reporting
>so it goes ready.
I am in a quite awkward situation. It is about a fuse mount program
operating in xinetd mode (reading/writing to stdin/stdout). When any
of my code is called, I am already involved in a filesystem operation
(e.g. the user called `df`), so there is no point in trying to
handle a broken pipe here. For reference, my_getattr() is,
simplified:
write(stdout, request);
/* reference point [A] */
read(stdin, response);
So my idea had been to launch another thread that monitors stdin for
'breakage' and unmount the fs before a user can start an operation on
myfs. So I've been trying to complete the idea to code. You say a
broken socket raises the read flag, so:
while(1) {
select(STDIN_FILENO+1, &read_set, NULL, NULL, NULL);
/* check if broken */
}
but the read flag may also raised during [A] above. So I'd have to
use locking ...
pthread_mutex_lock(&lk);
write(stdout, request);
read(stdin, response);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&lk);
and
while(1) {
pthread_mutex_lock(&lk);
select(STDIN_FILENO+1, &read_set, NULL, NULL,
&(struct timeval){0, 0});
/* check if broken */
pthread_mutex_unlock(&lk);
}
this has the disadvantage that I have to use {0,0} so as to unlock
&lk ASAP, otherwise I'd be blocking the write(). Additionally, this
makes it busy-loop, which is not so good. Adding a sleep(60) is a
workaround, but I'd prefer some infinite timeout that cancels on
condition, like e.g. select with a NULL timeout.
Maybe there is a thought bug somewhere and it can be done better.
Your advice is highly appreciated,
thanks,
Jan
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