Re: [pptp-devel] pptp alarm signal handler and signal safe functions

[James C. <jam...@hp...>]

Testers wanted.

The attached patch tries to fix the signal deadlock on 2.6.x kernels
caused by use of unsafe functions in a signal handler.  I've run the
patch on a test lab machine without incident.

The style was derived from the pptpd work, which was derived from the
patch proposed last October by Jean Wolter.

The patch is relative to CVS, which held 1.6.0.  CVS has been updated.

There is yet work to do on the other signal uses in the program, but
this is a start on the task.

(Reproduced the problem of unable to start a tunnel within a minute of
stopping it; which appears to be non-reuse of the call manager process.
But that problem had been reported before.  Anyone know a fix?).

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