Re: [SSHGuard-users] [PATCH 1/1] sshguard.in: Fix race condition in exit trap

[Kevin Z. <kev...@gm...>]

Hi Gregor,

On 5/23/25 4:36 AM, Gregor Herburger wrote:
> When the sshguard script gets an SIGNAL to exit the clean_and_exit
> function is called which calls exit which in turn calls exit 0. This can
> in some cases call again clean_and_exit and causes a non-zero exit code.
Thanks for the investigation and the patch.

The patch seems correct, though would you characterize it as a race 
condition or more of infinite recursion?

Could you also advise what OS/shell you were using when you encountered 
the issue?

Regards,
Kevin