[Pam-developers] [linux-pam] #17: pam_unix waitpid on unix_chkpwd child should retry on EINTR

#17: pam_unix waitpid on unix_chkpwd child should retry on EINTR ---------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: ncw | Owner: pam-developers@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Component: modules Version: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: ---------------------+------------------------------ Our application generates signals. A customer is seeing intermittent authentication failures because the waitpid for the unix_chkpwd child treats EINTR as an authentication failure. See support.c:L624 https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux- pam.git/tree/modules/pam_unix/support.c#n624 {{{ - rc=waitpid(child, &retval, 0); + while ((rc=waitpid(child, &retval, 0))<0 && errno == EINTR) ; }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ticket/17> linux-pam <http://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam> The Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) project