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+/*
+ * idle.c -- pause code for fetchmail
+ *
+ * For license terms, see the file COPYING in this directory.
+ */
+#include "config.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#if defined(STDC_HEADERS)
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#endif
+#if defined(HAVE_UNISTD_H)
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+#include "fetchmail.h"
+#include "i18n.h"
+
+volatile int lastsig; /* last signal received */
+
+#ifdef SLEEP_WITH_ALARM
+/*
+ * The function of this variable is to remove the window during which a
+ * SIGALRM can hose the code (ALARM is triggered *before* pause() is called).
+ * This is a bit of a kluge; the real right thing would use sigprocmask(),
+ * sigsuspend(). This workaround lets the interval timer trigger the first
+ * alarm after the required interval and will then generate alarms all 5
+ * seconds, until it is certain, that the critical section (ie., the window)
+ * is left.
+ */
+#if defined(STDC_HEADERS)
+static sig_atomic_t alarm_latch = FALSE;
+#else
+/* assume int can be written in one atomic operation on non ANSI-C systems */
+static int alarm_latch = FALSE;
+#endif
+
+RETSIGTYPE gotsigalrm(sig)
+int sig;
+{
+ signal(sig, gotsigalrm);
+ lastsig = sig;
+ alarm_latch = TRUE;
+}
+#endif /* SLEEP_WITH_ALARM */
+
+#ifdef __EMX__
+/* Various EMX-specific definitions */
+static int itimerflag;
+
+void itimerthread(void* dummy)
+{
+ if (outlevel >= O_VERBOSE)
+ report(stderr,
+ _("fetchmail: thread sleeping for %d sec.\n"), poll_interval);
+ while(1)
+ {
+ _sleep2(poll_interval*1000);
+ kill((getpid()), SIGALRM);
+ }
+}
+#endif
+
+RETSIGTYPE donothing(int sig) {signal(sig, donothing); lastsig = sig;}
+
+int idle(int seconds)
+/* time for a pause in the action; return TRUE if awakened by signal */
+{
+ int awoken = FALSE;
+
+ /*
+ * With this simple hack, we make it possible for a foreground
+ * fetchmail to wake up one in daemon mode. What we want is the
+ * side effect of interrupting any sleep that may be going on,
+ * forcing fetchmail to re-poll its hosts. The second line is
+ * for people who think all system daemons wake up on SIGHUP.
+ */
+ signal(SIGUSR1, donothing);
+ if (!getuid())
+ signal(SIGHUP, donothing);
+
+#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 || ((seconds && !getuid()) && lastsig == SIGHUP))
+ awoken = TRUE;
+
+ /* now lock out interrupts again */
+ signal(SIGUSR1, SIG_IGN);
+ if (!getuid())
+ signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
+
+ return(awoken ? lastsig : 0);
+}
+
+/* idle.c ends here */