Commit d1ca34ed authored by Rémi Denis-Courmont's avatar Rémi Denis-Courmont

vlc: use signal handlers rather than sigwait() for SIGCHLD

This works around Qt4 QProcess getting stuck waiting for its
SIGCHLD signal handler to be called.
parent 86c8ef3f
......@@ -221,14 +221,19 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
pthread_t self = pthread_self ();
libvlc_set_exit_handler (vlc, vlc_kill, &self);
if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP)) /* <- needed to handle nohup properly */
/* Qt4 insists on catching SIGCHLD via signal handler. To work around that,
* unblock it after all our child threads are created. */
sigdelset (&set, SIGCHLD);
pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL);
/* Do not dequeue SIGHUP if it is ignored (nohup) */
if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP))
sigdelset (&set, SIGHUP);
/* Ignore SIGPIPE */
sigdelset (&set, SIGPIPE);
int signum;
do
sigwait (&set, &signum);
while (signum == SIGCHLD);
sigwait (&set, &signum);
/* Restore default signal behaviour after 3 seconds */
sigemptyset (&set);
......
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