From:   "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
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Date:   Sat, 08 Jan 2022 12:13:59 -0600
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        Osipenko's message of "Thu, 6 Jan 2022 00:39:10 +0300")
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit
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Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> writes:

> 05.01.2022 22:58, Eric W. Biederman пишет:
>> 
>> I have not yet been able to figure out how to run gst-pluggin-scanner in
>> a way that triggers this yet.  In truth I can't figure out how to
>> run gst-pluggin-scanner in a useful way.
>> 
>> I am going to set up some unit tests and see if I can reproduce your
>> hang another way, but if you could give me some more information on what
>> you are doing to trigger this I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks, Eric. The distro is Arch Linux, but it's a development
> environment where I'm running latest GStreamer from git master. I'll try
> to figure out the reproduction steps and get back to you.

Thank you.

Until I can figure out why this is causing problems I have dropped the
following two patches from my queue:
 signal: Make SIGKILL during coredumps an explicit special case
 signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed

I have replaced them with the following two patches that just do what
is needed for the rest of the code in the series:
 signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using
 signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal

Perversely my failure to change the SIGKILL handling when coredumps are
happening proves to me that I need to change the SIGKILL handling when
coredumps are happening to make the code more maintainable.

Eric