Re: Plugins and signal handlers

Bryan Christ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
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That makes sense.  Thank you.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:46 PM Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:40:59 -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> That should work in most cases.  Sudo will forward the signal to
> the command and wait for it to exit.  However, if the command ignores
> SIGTERM sudo will keep running.
>
> However, it is better to just return 0 from the I/O logging plugin
> log_* functions if you can.  That will cause sudo to kill the command
> and exit.
>
>  - todd
>


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Bryan
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