Re: EINTR in ftruncate()

Hi,

On 2022-07-07 08:56:33 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 8:39 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > So I think we need: 1) block most signals, 2) a retry loop *without*
> > interrupt checks.
>
> Yeah. I was also wondering about wrapping the whole function in
> PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig), PG_SETMASK(&UnBlockSig), but also leaving the
> while (rc == EINTR) loop there (without the check for *Pending
> variables), only because otherwise when you attach a debugger and
> continue you'll get a spurious EINTR and it'll interfere with program
> execution. All blockable signals would be blocked *except* SIGQUIT,
> which means that fast shutdown/crash will still work. It seems nice
> to leave that way to interrupt it without resorting to SIGKILL.

Fast shutdown shouldn't use SIGQUIT - did you mean immediate? I think
it's fine to allow immediate shutdowns, but I don't think we should
allow fast shutdowns to interrupt it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund