Dear Perl Monks,

I have been playing around with IO::Poll in a learning-project of mine. However, when trying to implement a handler for the SIGHUP signal, it seems the errno being returned from poll() is not set to what I expect.

I have written the following code in an attempt to show the exact issue I am facing:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use IO::Poll qw(POLLIN POLLHUP POLLERR); use IO::Socket; ### Behavior of SIGHUP handler. # # 0 = print string and nothing else. Errno = "Interrupted system call" +. Expected behaviour. # 1 = same as 0 plus open/close of filehandle. Errno = "Inappropriate +ioctl for device" regardless of contents in file. # 2 = same as 1 plus reading a line from file into scalar before closi +ng. If file is empty, then errno is empty. Otherwise, Errno = "Bad fi +le descriptor" # 3 = same as 2 but setting $/ to undef, reading until end of file int +o scalar. Errno is emtpy regardless of contents in file. # 4 = Similar to 2/3 but reading file into an array. Errno is empty re +gardless of contents in file. # my $behaviour = 0; ### Variables you might want to change. my $file = "file.txt"; my $poll_timeout = 5; my $handle; my $pret; my $readbuffer; my $rret; my $string; my @ready; my @strings; unless (-r $file) { print "File \"$file\" is not readable...\n"; exit 1; } sub SIGHUP_handler { print "Got SIGHUP...\n"; if ($behaviour == 1) { open(FILE, $file); close FILE; } elsif ($behaviour == 2) { open(FILE, $file); $string = <FILE>; close FILE; } elsif ($behaviour == 3) { open(FILE, $file); undef $/; $string = <FILE>; close FILE; } elsif ($behaviour == 4) { open(FILE, $file); @strings = <FILE>; close FILE; } } $SIG{HUP} = 'SIGHUP_handler'; my $poll = IO::Poll->new; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => "127.0.0.1", PeerPort => "12000", Proto => 'tcp') or die "Error creating socket: $!"; $poll->mask($sock, POLLIN); while(1) { $pret = $poll->poll($poll_timeout); if ($pret == 0) { syswrite(STDOUT, "Timeout occured...\n"); } elsif ($pret == -1) { syswrite(STDOUT, "Error occured: $!\n"); } else { @ready = $poll->handles(); foreach $handle (@ready) { $rret = sysread($handle, $readbuffer, 1024); if ($rret == 0) { syswrite(STDOUT, "No data to read on socket, exiting...\n" +); exit 1; } syswrite(STDOUT, "msg: $readbuffer"); } } }

The problem is this: When the process recieves a signal during a blocking system call, poll(), I am expecting it to return EINTR, or "Interrupted system call". This is what happens when my SIGHUP handler does nothing else but outputting some text.

However, when i start to fiddle around with file handles inside my signal handler, errno is set to something else completely.

What you need to reproduce this:

If you managed to get this far, then please go ahead and start mixing empty/non-empty file with different $behaviour modes.

Could anyone please explain to me why the contents of $! is changing in this way? Is this the expected behaviour? Am I doing something terribly wrong?

I also noticed something (presumably) strange when looking at this with strace. When running the code with $behaviour set to "2" while having some content in the file being opened, I failed to see any sign of a system call returning EBADF, even though $! seems to be set to "Bad file descriptor".

Any feedback is greatly appreciated :).


In reply to Errno being set to strange values when using IO::Poll by eest

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