Re: Plugins and signal handlers

Bryan Christ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID <CAPQiZK8EK0Y5k5PtnDtJj0zYFr9pXSZi4y983pQP=FTy0_rfCA@mail.gmail.com>
No.  I could do that.  I just have to put checks in several places.

And if I need to kill the sudo process itself, should I raise SIGTERM.
would that be sufficient?

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:31 PM Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:26:51 -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
>
> > What are the ramifications if my I/O plugin installs a signal handler for
> > SIGPIPE?  Would that trample a handler that sudo already has installed?
>
> That would probably cause problems.  Sudo sets SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN
> and expects to receive EPIPE when writing to a closed pipe.
>
> Is there any reason you can't just check errno for EPIPE instead?
>
>  - todd
>


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Bryan
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