Dbus calls interlock issue

[Thiago Macieira]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:50 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> One of the few safe things to do is write the pid to a pipe (as in
>> pipe(2)) and return; whenever a pid can be read from the other end of
>> the pipe in your main loop, do your cleanup and D-Bus interactions
>> there.
>
>Though note that if you spawn a large number of children, it is possible
>for this pipe to be filled such that the signal handled blocks on
>write()
>
>It's generally better to use pselect() or ppoll() and otherwise mask
>SIGCHLD out from your process.

pselect wasn't available on Linux until very recently.

You should make your pipe non-blocking. If it's full, the event loop is 
going to wake up anyways very soon now.

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