As the SIGUSR1 handler is so far registered after forking the recorder child, there is a small race window where a flush sent by the main process can actually kill the child. Plug this by registering the signal handlers before the fork. This also allows to unify SIGINT registration. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- trace-cmd.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/trace-cmd.c b/trace-cmd.c index 9cbe362..f8992a8 100644 --- a/trace-cmd.c +++ b/trace-cmd.c @@ -1089,6 +1089,8 @@ static int create_recorder(int cpu) char *file; int pid; + signal(SIGUSR1, flush); + pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) die("fork"); @@ -1096,9 +1098,6 @@ static int create_recorder(int cpu) if (pid) return pid; - signal(SIGINT, finish); - signal(SIGUSR1, flush); - if (rt_prio) set_prio(rt_prio); @@ -1694,9 +1693,9 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) set_options(); if (record || extract) { + signal(SIGINT, finish); if (!latency) start_threads(); - signal(SIGINT, finish); } if (extract) { -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-trace-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html