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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-07 05:43:10 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-07 05:43:10 +0000
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Beginning of timeout refactoring.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2809
Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.c')
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c202
1 files changed, 106 insertions, 96 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index fa79a30e..24dfc00a 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -163,6 +163,103 @@ static void dropprivs(void)
}
#endif
+static flag idle(int seconds)
+/* time for a pause in the action; return TRUE if awakened by signal */
+{
+#ifndef __EMX__
+#ifdef SLEEP_WITH_ALARM /* not normally on */
+ /*
+ * We can't use sleep(3) here because we need an alarm(3)
+ * equivalent in order to implement server nonresponse timeout.
+ * We'll just assume setitimer(2) is available since fetchmail
+ * has to have a BSDoid socket layer to work at all.
+ */
+ /*
+ * This code stopped working under glibc-2, apparently due
+ * to the change in signal(2) semantics. (The siginterrupt
+ * line, added later, should fix this problem.) John Stracke
+ * <francis@netscape.com> wrote:
+ *
+ * The problem seems to be that, after hitting the interval
+ * timer while talking to the server, the process no longer
+ * responds to SIGALRM. I put in printf()s to see when it
+ * reached the pause() for the poll interval, and I checked
+ * the return from setitimer(), and everything seemed to be
+ * working fine, except that the pause() just ignored SIGALRM.
+ * I thought maybe the itimer wasn't being fired, so I hit
+ * it with a SIGALRM from the command line, and it ignored
+ * that, too. SIGUSR1 woke it up just fine, and it proceeded
+ * to repoll--but, when the dummy server didn't respond, it
+ * never timed out, and SIGALRM wouldn't make it.
+ *
+ * (continued below...)
+ */
+ struct itimerval ntimeout;
+
+ ntimeout.it_interval.tv_sec = 5; /* repeat alarm every 5 secs */
+ ntimeout.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
+ ntimeout.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
+ ntimeout.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
+
+ siginterrupt(SIGALRM, 1);
+ alarm_latch = FALSE;
+ signal(SIGALRM, gotsigalrm); /* first trap signals */
+ setitimer(ITIMER_REAL,&ntimeout,NULL); /* then start timer */
+ /* there is a very small window between the next two lines */
+ /* which could result in a deadlock. But this will now be */
+ /* caught by periodical alarms (see it_interval) */
+ if (!alarm_latch)
+ pause();
+ /* stop timer */
+ ntimeout.it_interval.tv_sec = ntimeout.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
+ ntimeout.it_value.tv_sec = ntimeout.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
+ setitimer(ITIMER_REAL,&ntimeout,NULL); /* now stop timer */
+ signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
+#else
+ /*
+ * So the workaround I used is to make it sleep by using
+ * select() instead of setitimer()/pause(). select() is
+ * perfectly happy being called with a timeout and
+ * no file descriptors; it just sleeps until it hits the
+ * timeout. The only concern I had was that it might
+ * implement its timeout with SIGALRM--there are some
+ * Unices where this is done, because select() is a library
+ * function--but apparently not.
+ */
+ struct timeval timeout;
+
+ timeout.tv_sec = run.poll_interval;
+ timeout.tv_usec = 0;
+ do {
+ lastsig = 0;
+ select(0,0,0,0, &timeout);
+ } while (lastsig == SIGCHLD);
+#endif
+#else /* EMX */
+ alarm_latch = FALSE;
+ signal(SIGALRM, gotsigalrm);
+ _beginthread(itimerthread, NULL, 32768, NULL);
+ /* see similar code above */
+ if (!alarm_latch)
+ pause();
+ signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
+#endif /* ! EMX */
+ if (lastsig == SIGUSR1
+ || ((run.poll_interval && !getuid()) && lastsig == SIGHUP))
+ {
+#ifdef SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED
+ report(stdout,
+ _("awakened by %s\n"), sys_siglist[lastsig]);
+#else
+ report(stdout,
+ _("awakened by signal %d\n"), lastsig);
+#endif
+ return(TRUE);
+ }
+
+ return(FALSE);
+}
+
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int st, bkgd = FALSE;
@@ -780,102 +877,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (!getuid())
signal(SIGHUP, donothing);
- /* time for a pause in the action... */
- {
-#ifndef __EMX__
-#ifdef SLEEP_WITH_ALARM /* not normally on */
- /*
- * We can't use sleep(3) here because we need an alarm(3)
- * equivalent in order to implement server nonresponse timeout.
- * We'll just assume setitimer(2) is available since fetchmail
- * has to have a BSDoid socket layer to work at all.
- */
- /*
- * This code stopped working under glibc-2, apparently due
- * to the change in signal(2) semantics. (The siginterrupt
- * line, added later, should fix this problem.) John Stracke
- * <francis@netscape.com> wrote:
- *
- * The problem seems to be that, after hitting the interval
- * timer while talking to the server, the process no longer
- * responds to SIGALRM. I put in printf()s to see when it
- * reached the pause() for the poll interval, and I checked
- * the return from setitimer(), and everything seemed to be
- * working fine, except that the pause() just ignored SIGALRM.
- * I thought maybe the itimer wasn't being fired, so I hit
- * it with a SIGALRM from the command line, and it ignored
- * that, too. SIGUSR1 woke it up just fine, and it proceeded
- * to repoll--but, when the dummy server didn't respond, it
- * never timed out, and SIGALRM wouldn't make it.
- *
- * (continued below...)
- */
- struct itimerval ntimeout;
-
- ntimeout.it_interval.tv_sec = 5; /* repeat alarm every 5 secs */
- ntimeout.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
- ntimeout.it_value.tv_sec = run.poll_interval;
- ntimeout.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
-
- siginterrupt(SIGALRM, 1);
- alarm_latch = FALSE;
- signal(SIGALRM, gotsigalrm); /* first trap signals */
- setitimer(ITIMER_REAL,&ntimeout,NULL); /* then start timer */
- /* there is a very small window between the next two lines */
- /* which could result in a deadlock. But this will now be */
- /* caught by periodical alarms (see it_interval) */
- if (!alarm_latch)
- pause();
- /* stop timer */
- ntimeout.it_interval.tv_sec = ntimeout.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
- ntimeout.it_value.tv_sec = ntimeout.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
- setitimer(ITIMER_REAL,&ntimeout,NULL); /* now stop timer */
- signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
-#else
- /*
- * So the workaround I used is to make it sleep by using
- * select() instead of setitimer()/pause(). select() is
- * perfectly happy being called with a timeout and
- * no file descriptors; it just sleeps until it hits the
- * timeout. The only concern I had was that it might
- * implement its timeout with SIGALRM--there are some
- * Unices where this is done, because select() is a library
- * function--but apparently not.
- */
- struct timeval timeout;
-
- timeout.tv_sec = run.poll_interval;
- timeout.tv_usec = 0;
- do {
- lastsig = 0;
- select(0,0,0,0, &timeout);
- } while (lastsig == SIGCHLD);
-#endif
-#else /* EMX */
- alarm_latch = FALSE;
- signal(SIGALRM, gotsigalrm);
- _beginthread(itimerthread, NULL, 32768, NULL);
- /* see similar code above */
- if (!alarm_latch)
- pause();
- signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
-#endif /* ! EMX */
- if (lastsig == SIGUSR1
- || ((run.poll_interval && !getuid()) && lastsig == SIGHUP))
- {
-#ifdef SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED
- report(stdout,
- _("awakened by %s\n"), sys_siglist[lastsig]);
-#else
- report(stdout,
- _("awakened by signal %d\n"), lastsig);
-#endif
- /* received a wakeup - unwedge all servers in case */
- /* the problem has been manually repaired */
- for (ctl = querylist; ctl; ctl = ctl->next)
- ctl->wedged = FALSE;
- }
- }
+ /*
+ * OK, now pause util it's time for the next poll cycle.
+ * A TRUE return indicates we received a wakeup signal;
+ * unwedge all servers in case the problem has been
+ * manually repaired.
+ */
+ if (idle(run.poll_interval))
+ for (ctl = querylist; ctl; ctl = ctl->next)
+ ctl->wedged = FALSE;
/* now lock out interrupts again */
signal(SIGUSR1, SIG_IGN);