Re: Improving Shepherd

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Heya,

Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:

> Good news: signfalfd seems to work as far as I can see. I am not quite sure
> how to make it work consistently with guile ports yet though. 

Good!  What do you mean by “work with guile ports” though?

> To make use of signalfd, one normally masks signals so that these can 
> handled via signalfd instead of the default signal handlers; any process
> forked start out with the same signal mask, so we would need to make
> sure to either reset the signal mask for spawned processes. 

Right, we could do that in ‘exec-command’, which is the central place
for fork+exec.

Well, let us know what to do next, then!  :-)

Ludo’.