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musl/src/select/select.c
Rich Felker b470030f83 overhaul cancellation to fix resource leaks and dangerous behavior with signals
this commit addresses two issues:

1. a race condition, whereby a cancellation request occurring after a
syscall returned from kernelspace but before the subsequent
CANCELPT_END would cause cancellable resource-allocating syscalls
(like open) to leak resources.

2. signal handlers invoked while the thread was blocked at a
cancellation point behaved as if asynchronous cancellation mode wer in
effect, resulting in potentially dangerous state corruption if a
cancellation request occurs.

the glibc/nptl implementation of threads shares both of these issues.

with this commit, both are fixed. however, cancellation points
encountered in a signal handler will not be acted upon if the signal
was received while the thread was already at a cancellation point.
they will of course be acted upon after the signal handler returns, so
in real-world usage where signal handlers quickly return, it should
not be a problem. it's possible to solve this problem too by having
sigaction() wrap all signal handlers with a function that uses a
pthread_cleanup handler to catch cancellation, patch up the saved
context, and return into the cancellable function that will catch and
act upon the cancellation. however that would be a lot of complexity
for minimal if any benefit...
2011-03-24 14:18:00 -04:00

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#include <sys/select.h>
#include "syscall.h"
#include "libc.h"
int select(int n, fd_set *rfds, fd_set *wfds, fd_set *efds, struct timeval *tv)
{
int r;
CANCELPT_BEGIN;
r = syscall(SYS_select, n, rfds, wfds, efds, tv);
CANCELPT_TRY;
CANCELPT_END;
return r;
}