ntpd hangs under FBSD 8

[Kostik Belousov]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:26:22PM -0600, Peter Steele wrote:
> > We'll likely go with this solution instead of downgrading Python and the related libraries.
> 
> In fact I came up with another solution. I realized that since the problem was related to the process signal mask, instead of called ntpd directly, wrap it up in a C app that resets the signal mask to something that works. I have the following code:
> 
> 	   sigset_t set, oset;
> 	   sigemptyset(&set);
> 	   pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &set, &oset);
> 	   system("/usr/sbin/ntpd -g -q");
> 	   pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oset, NULL);
> 
> I wrapped this up into a standalone app and call this from Python instead of calling ntpd directly. This solved the problem--no more hang. Thanks very much to Kostik Belousov for his "wild guess" that this was related to the process signal mask. His guess was dead on.

So this is arguably a Python bug. Did you contacted anybody who
cares about the Python ?
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