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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:30:35 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot reboot.c
Message-ID:  <20060808093035.GK54416@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <200608021305.k72D5c9R055142@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200608021305.k72D5c9R055142@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:05:38PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> bms         2006-08-02 13:05:38 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/reboot          reboot.c 
>   Log:
>   Block a variety of signals which may afffect reboot(8), before killing
>   init(8), to avoid losing a race to them and dying before being able
>   to call reboot(2).

By the way, did you consider the other policy, "default to deny,"
there: Mask all signals with sigfillset(), then unmask only those
we are willing to handle, and finally pass the mask to sigprocmask()?
That should be more robust, IMHO.  Thanks!

-- 
Yar



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