Bug 1896

Summary: signal handler should not be invoked during handler's context
Product: dce Reporter: Thomas Burger <burgerthomas1234>
Component: otherAssignee: Hajime Tazaki <tazaki>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: ns-bugs
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Thomas Burger 2014-04-07 04:24:27 EDT
When a sleep() in the signal handler is used, DCE calls the signal handler again and again, possibly leading to a SIGSEGV.

For detailed description and example files, please see ns-3-users
"DCE: problem when using sleep() in signal handler"
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ns-3-users/hTA6zLRENpc

Best regards,
Thomas
Comment 1 Hajime Tazaki 2014-04-23 20:50:11 EDT
confirmed. i am not sure whether merge would be finished within dce-1.3 release, but will do for sure asap.