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Re: what's left for 1.5.0


Corinna,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:43:01AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:35:26PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Are you willing to do the "honors"?  Or, would you like me to submit
> > patches for the DLL and/or inetd?
> 
> It's easy enough to change Cygwin.

OK, but should we still apply the ctrl_c_handler() patch?  I think we
should, but my confidence has been shaken by your and my findings
below...

> I just don't quite see why inetd should get patched.  Inetd doesn't
> have a need to clean up and it has no handling to send signals to its
> children so far.  Do you think it should?

No, I was just offering for completeness.  Since I proposed removing the
SIGTERM handling from Cygwin, I thought that it was only fair to offer
to "fix" any official known Cygwin daemon to be affected by this change.

> In that case it would just send SIGTERM to all processes in the same
> process group.  Is that what you're suggesting?

Yes.

> Somehow that's the same as still having the CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT
> handled in Cygwin ;-)

Yes, but at least inetd gets to decide how it responds to
CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT.

> Btw., if MSDN is right that only service processes get a
> CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT message, how comes that postmaster started from
> cygrunsrv also gets a SIGTERM?

Good question.

> Is MSDN wrong or better, is it not thouroughly enough describing what
> happens?

I think the latter, see below...

> I examined the behaviour of sshd on shutdown.
>
> [snip]
> 
> So CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT actually is send also to the services child
> processes.

I just tried running sshd directly under the LocalSystem account (using
the "at $TIME /interactive cmd" trick).  I got the following EventLog
entry:

    [13956] sshd
       Type:     INFORMATION 
       Computer: TISHLERJASON
       Time:     6/11/2003 2:14:27 PM   ID:       0 
       User:     SYSTEM\NT AUTHORITY
    sshd : PID 2860 : Received signal 15; terminating.

So, it appears that even normal apps receive CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT during
shutdown.  Sigh...

> So far so good but what about Cygwin applications started from a
> non-Cygwin service starter like SRVANY?  If anybody is using that one,
> say,  because an application is not behaving "cygrunsrv aware" (forks
> and execs for instance), then all these processes don't have a chance
> to clean up.  What's our answer to this one?  Don't do that?

Sounds good to me!

Thanks,
Jason

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