Continuation of a3ebe5eb620e49f0d24082876cafc7579261e64f:
in other places we sometimes use assert_se(), and sometimes normal error
handling. sigfillset and sigaddset can only fail if mask is NULL (which cannot
happen if we are passing in a reference), or if the signal number is invalid
(which really shouldn't happen when we are using a constant like SIGCHLD. If
SIGCHLD is invalid, we have a bigger problem). So let's simplify things and
always use assert_se() in those cases.
In sigset_add_many() we could conceivably pass an invalid signal, so let's keep
normal error handling here. The caller can do assert_se() around the
sigprocmask_many() call if appropriate.
'>= 0' is used for consistency with the rest of the codebase.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This ensures that in all threads we fork off in the background in our
code we mask out all signals, so that our thread won't end up getting
signals delivered the main process should be getting.
We always set the signal mask before forking off the thread, so that the
thread has the right mask set from its earliest existance on.
This adds a new safe_fork() wrapper around fork() and makes use of it
everywhere. The new wrapper does a couple of things we previously did
manually and separately in a safer, more correct and automatic way:
1. Optionally resets signal handlers/mask in the child
2. Sets a name on all processes we fork off right after forking off (and
the patch assigns useful names for all processes we fork off now,
following a systematic naming scheme: always enclosed in () – in order
to indicate that these are not proper, exec()ed processes, but only
forked off children, and if the process is long-running with only our
own code, without execve()'ing something else, it gets am "sd-" prefix.)
3. Optionally closes all file descriptors in the child
4. Optionally sets a PR_SET_DEATHSIG to SIGTERM in the child, in a safe
way so that the parent dying before this happens being handled
safely.
5. Optionally reopens the logs
6. Optionally connects stdin/stdout/stderr to /dev/null
7. Debug logs about the forked off processes.
Let's fork off sync() ina process instead of a thread, as a safety
measure. This is beneficial to ensure that the original process can exit
without having to wait for the sync() to finish (note that the kernel
will delay process termination until all threads finished their
syscalls). In case of hanging NFS this increases the chance that PID 1
can safely transition to the "systemd-shutdown" process as the sync() is
initiated early on but definitely not waited for.
