Blocking and fork problem with signalfd

[Julien Danjou]

Hi,

Starting with 3.8 and modern Linux system, libev uses signalfd, which is
very nice. Thanks for that. :-)

The problem we have currently is that if we ask libev to handle a
signal, it will block the signal using sigprocmask(). That's not
nice, because all subprocesses created with fork() will now have this
signal blocked.

You'll tell me, you just have to unblock the signal between fork() and exec().
That's we do currently, but we are using other libraries that have their
own fork/exec routines that we cannot change, and we just cannot fix the
problem everywhere.

Is there any workaround we may have missed?

Cheers,
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