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Re: signals of type SIGSEGV handled only once (in multithreaded process)


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:37:51AM +0100, klement2 wrote:
>After excellently quick correction of pthread_kill when the argument
>signal is zero
>(by cgf), I have found another problem related to signal handling. The
>code in attachment
>demonstrates it ( because of pthread_kill, it must be run with
>cygwin1-20080213.dll and newer ).
>It seams that signal handlers for signals like SIGSEGV, SIGFPE are
>called only once,
>and the default handler is called for the second time the signal occures
>in the process.
>I'm not sure if the example is reasonable (e.g. pthread_exit in signal
>handler...),
>but works as expected on linux.
>
>Output from the example compiled and run in linux:
>
>Starting SIGSEGV1...
>tid1=b7f1abb0
>Sigaction success, errno = 0
>Join1                ---> Result: 0, xx=8
>Ret. value           ---> Result: 8, xx=8
>Good thread create   ---> Result: 0, xx=8
>Starting SIGSEGV2...
>tid2=b7519bb0
>Sigaction success, errno = 0
><--------------------------- this is the end in cygwin (crash info
>message)------------
>xx=9
>Join2                ---> Result: 0, xx=9
>Ret. value           ---> Result: 9, xx=9

I made some changes (after receiving some insight from Corinna) and,
AFAICT, the latest snapshot matches the above linux behavior.

cgf

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