Re: [Tracker] Use of fork() in tracker-extract-pdf

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

[ Wonders of unix signals ]

> > Seriously? Removing the debug statement is fixing the issue for you?
>
> yes, it fixes one issue and since adding the fix to my code I haven't run into any other issue yet.
>
> This one is definitely a bug, you're not supposed to use non async-signal-safe stuff in a signal handler. 
> As g_debug() calls malloc(), which is not async-signal-safe, we MUST remove the log statement from the 
> signal handler.

Shouldn't this be solvable by using g_unix_signal_add* if you want to
keep the debug messages? Though I have a faint memory of only certain
signals being valid to use with this, but can't find that currently.