Bug 6745 - si_code != SI_SIGIO when a signal is generated by queued SIGIO
Summary: si_code != SI_SIGIO when a signal is generated by queued SIGIO
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: glibc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: manual (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Roland McGrath
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-07-14 17:16 UTC by who
Modified: 2014-07-04 05:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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server code to see the problem (905 bytes, text/x-csrc)
2008-07-14 17:28 UTC, who
Details
client code to see the problem (392 bytes, text/x-csrc)
2008-07-14 17:29 UTC, who
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Description who 2008-07-14 17:16:00 UTC
I'm trying to write a server application that will wait for incoming connections.

Whenever a client attempts to connect/read/write (basically when the socket
experiences activity) a signal is supposed to be triggered.

I used:
fcntl(socket, F_SETSIG, SIGIO);
fcntl(socket, F_SETFL, O_ASYNC | O_NONBLOCK);
fcntl(socket, F_SETOWN, getpid());

And:
struct sigaction action;
action.sa_sigaction = &MySigHandler;
action.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
sigaction(SIGIO, &action, NULL);

According to the man pages, whenever there is activity in the socket "socket", a
signal will be raised. The signal would be handled by "MySigHandler", and since
the "SA_SIGINFO" flag was set, the signal would provide additional information
to the function. And here is when the unexpected behaviour occurs.

According to the manpages, the second parameter of the handler (siginfo_t *)
should contain additional information. Among the information, si_code is
supposed to have "SI_SIGIO" if the signal was generated by a queued SIGIO.

Instead of having SI_SIGIO (supposed to be -5) I get a value of 1. I also tried
"kill -s SIGIO <pid of server>" and got a value of 0 (SI_USER), which is the
expected value when the signal is raised by kill.

I'm currently using glib version 2.7-2 on Linux version 2.6.23.1-42.fc8.

To reproduce the problem simply setup a socket using fcntl (as above), make it
listen for incoming connections, and use sigaction (as above) to make a function
handle the signal. Inside the function, print out the contents of si_code. If
necessary, I can provide my own code.
Comment 1 who 2008-07-14 17:28:34 UTC
Created attachment 2827 [details]
server code to see the problem
Comment 2 who 2008-07-14 17:29:04 UTC
Created attachment 2828 [details]
client code to see the problem
Comment 3 who 2008-07-14 17:32:45 UTC
I have added source code to reproduce the problem.

The server will never exit until killed by SIGTERM (or SIGKILL and SIGSTOP).

The client will just attempt to connect (to trigger the SIGIO signal) and then
will exit.
Comment 4 Halesh S 2008-07-15 07:00:01 UTC
Check this discussion, may be helpful

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg03633.html
Comment 5 who 2008-07-15 14:56:11 UTC
Thanks for the info.

Apparently it's been known since 2000 that si_code does not contain SI_SIGIO
(like the man pages say) anymore.

Looks like it will stay that way for a while now, so I'll just avoid using
si_code for now.
Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2012-04-08 13:08:56 UTC
This is a bug in the manpages, I've brought this bug to the attention of the Linux man page maintainer.

Closing as INVALID since it's not a bug in the documentation that is part of glibc.