On 04/03/2013 12:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> I think the simplest fix is to insert "PG_SETMASK(&UnBlockSig)" into
>> StatementCancelHandler() and any other handlers that might exit via
>> longjmp. I'm a bit inclined to only do this on platforms where a
>> problem is demonstrable, which so far is only OpenBSD. (You'd
>> think that all BSDen would have the same issue, but the buildfarm
>> shows otherwise.)
>
> BTW, on further thought it seems like maybe this is an OpenBSD bug,
> at least in part: what is evidently happening is that the temporary
> blockage of SIGINT during the handler persists even after we've
> longjmp'd back to the main loop. But we're using sigsetjmp(..., 1)
> to establish that longjmp handler --- so why isn't the original signal
> mask reinstalled when we return to the main loop?
>
> If (your version of) OpenBSD is getting this wrong, it'd explain why
> we've not seen similar behavior elsewhere.
hmm trolling the openbsd cvs history brings up this:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/sparc64/sparc64/machdep.c?r1=1.143;sortby=date#rev1.143
Stefan
