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Re: [Xen-devel] xend blocks SIGCHLD and SIGINT

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xend blocks SIGCHLD and SIGINT
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:33:07 +0100
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On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 00:03 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> xend currently block SIGINT and SIGCHLD.
> 
> The first makes it impossible to kill xend in debugging mode gracefully.
> The second produces zombies if the childs (for example qemu-dm) dies.
> 
> Bastian
> 

I've been working on patches to make Xend shutdown cleanly, mainly
because of a Python threading oddity with Thread.join(). If you would
like, you can give this patch a whirl.

I'm not sure whether it helps with the second issue with SIGCHLD though.
But it would be useful to know.

Cheers,

Alastair

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