From 289007e5ebd82e7cf61a20c6afd0206e0037ce0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Purdie Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 23:31:13 +0100 Subject: bitbake: utils: Add signal_on_parent_exit() function Add a new bb.utils.signal_on_parent_exit() function so that a process can register to recieve a signal when the parent dies. There is no POSIX standard for this and the implementation is Linux specific. Alternatives would be having an open pipe or polling os.getppid() for changes but this seems more effective and less invasive to most of bitbake's code structure. We need to be able to determine when parents die to ensure child processes stop running in a variety of circumstances to avoid locks being held and ensure clean shutdown. Roughly based on https://gist.github.com/evansd/2346614 (Bitbake rev: 34974f5e30e9b09c016481e4c81c156a5f379784) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py') diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py index b62985dd7b..91faa494ca 100644 --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ import errno import signal from commands import getstatusoutput from contextlib import contextmanager +from ctypes import cdll + logger = logging.getLogger("BitBake.Util") @@ -1291,3 +1293,20 @@ def get_file_layer(filename, d): result = path_to_layer(filename) return result + + +# Constant taken from http://linux.die.net/include/linux/prctl.h +PR_SET_PDEATHSIG = 1 + +class PrCtlError(Exception): + pass + +def signal_on_parent_exit(signame): + """ + Trigger signame to be sent when the parent process dies + """ + signum = getattr(signal, signame) + # http://linux.die.net/man/2/prctl + result = cdll['libc.so.6'].prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, signum) + if result != 0: + raise PrCtlError('prctl failed with error code %s' % result) -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf