Re: [Monotone-devel] pidfile cleanup

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:49:37PM -0500, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> Did the new signal handling stuff (to fix the delay/freeze after ctrl-c 
> on mtn log) fix pidfile cleanup?  The test seems to still be an xfail.

Umm, no... forgot about that :-).

It should be straightforward enough to come up with some hack to make
it work, though -- we have signal handlers, just need to teach them
when a pidfile exists, and to delete it, using some signal-safe code.
(The main thing to watch out for with such code would be "never
allocate memory".  Calling unlink(2) should be fine, though.)

-- Nathaniel

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