Fix a race condition with glib (Bug#8855).
This is a backport from the trunk, consisting of:
2012-11-17 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* nt/inc/sys/wait.h: New file, with prototype of waitpid and
definitions of macros it needs.
* nt/inc/ms-w32.h (wait): Don't define, 'wait' is not used anymore.
(sys_wait): Remove prototype.
* nt/config.nt (HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H): Define to 1.
* src/w32proc.c (create_child): Don't clip the PID of the child
process to fit into an Emacs integer, as this is no longer a
restriction.
(waitpid): Rename from sys_wait. Emulate a Posix 'waitpid' by
reaping only the process specified by PID argument, if that is
positive. Use PID instead of dead_child to know which process to
reap. Wait for the child to die only if WNOHANG is not in
OPTIONS.
(sys_select): Don't set dead_child.
* src/sysdep.c (wait_for_termination_1): Remove the WINDOWSNT portion,
as it is no longer needed.
* src/process.c (waitpid, WUNTRACED) [!WNOHANG]: Remove definitions,
no longer needed.
(record_child_status_change): Remove the setting of
record_at_most_one_child for the !WNOHANG case.
2012-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Fix a race condition that causes Emacs to mess up glib (Bug#8855).
This is a backport from the trunk.
The symptom is a diagnostic "GLib-WARNING **: In call to
g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but
SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD was received by
waitpid(), so exit status can't be returned." The diagnostic
is partly wrong, as the SIGCHLD action is not set to SIG_IGN.
The real bug is a race condition between Emacs and glib: Emacs
does a waitpid (-1, ...) and reaps glib's subprocess by mistake,
so that glib can't find it. Work around the bug by invoking
waitpid only on subprocesses that Emacs itself creates.
* src/process.c (create_process, record_child_status_change):
Don't use special value -1 in pid field, as the caller now must
know the pid rather than having the callee infer it. The
inference was sometimes incorrect anyway, due to another race.
(create_process): Set new 'alive' member if child is created.
(process_status_retrieved): New function.
(record_child_status_change): Use it.
Accept negative 1st argument, which means to wait for the
processes that Emacs already knows about. Move special-case code
for DOS_NT (which lacks WNOHANG) here, from caller. Keep track of
processes that have already been waited for, by testing and
clearing new 'alive' member.
(CAN_HANDLE_MULTIPLE_CHILDREN): Remove, as record_child_status_change
now does this internally.
(handle_child_signal): Let record_child_status_change do all
the work, since we do not want to reap all exited child processes,
only the child processes that Emacs itself created.
* src/process.h (Lisp_Process): New boolean member 'alive'.