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| author | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 2013-01-19 17:18:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 2013-01-21 10:40:04 +0100 |
| commit | ab087e0aa4bd9f12a73ca0b248f02d8a22d49e46 (patch) | |
| tree | 17451ec254a5877b2ad063306d719e744bc7adbd /posix | |
| parent | ba6f5ae50b86b58b8735671db2c4798249e42ddf (diff) | |
| download | glibc-ab087e0aa4bd9f12a73ca0b248f02d8a22d49e46.tar.gz | |
Avoid busy loop in wordexp when substituted command closed its stdout
Diffstat (limited to 'posix')
| -rw-r--r-- | posix/wordexp.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/posix/wordexp.c b/posix/wordexp.c index bf49baab9c..96ce8a4b17 100644 --- a/posix/wordexp.c +++ b/posix/wordexp.c @@ -953,7 +953,12 @@ exec_comm (char *comm, char **word, size_t *word_length, size_t *max_length, if ((buflen = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__read (fildes[0], buffer, bufsize))) < 1) { - if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__waitpid (pid, &status, WNOHANG)) == 0) + /* If read returned 0 then the process has closed its + stdout. Don't use WNOHANG in that case to avoid busy + looping until the process eventually exits. */ + if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__waitpid (pid, &status, + buflen == 0 ? 0 : WNOHANG)) + == 0) continue; if ((buflen = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__read (fildes[0], buffer, bufsize))) < 1) @@ -983,7 +988,12 @@ exec_comm (char *comm, char **word, size_t *word_length, size_t *max_length, if ((buflen = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__read (fildes[0], buffer, bufsize))) < 1) { - if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__waitpid (pid, &status, WNOHANG)) == 0) + /* If read returned 0 then the process has closed its + stdout. Don't use WNOHANG in that case to avoid busy + looping until the process eventually exits. */ + if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__waitpid (pid, &status, + buflen == 0 ? 0 : WNOHANG)) + == 0) continue; if ((buflen = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__read (fildes[0], buffer, bufsize))) < 1) |