Re: Is it okay to fork() in a sudo i/o plugin?

On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 19:37:13 -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:

> I'm writing a plug-in for sudo using the plugin API.  Since the logging
> facility of the plug-in will push data to a remote server, I want to avoid
> potential blocking situations.  Is it reasonable to fork() from an I/O
> plugin?  Obviously I can't install a handler for sigchld to reap processes
> so I perceive that to be a bit of a problem right out of the gate unless
> sudo already has a handler that I can count on to do that.

When do you want to do the fork?  You could use a single child
process that you communicate with over a socketpair in the plugin
and wait for the child in the plugin's close function.  If you do
non-blocking I/O in the child and buffer things until the remote
end can consume them you shouldn't have to worry about blocking.

 - todd
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