Restore default signal handling in child processes

In particular, this fixes Ctrl-C in nix-shell sessions.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index ca4edc2cd..6c4c5c969 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -860,6 +860,8 @@ string runProgram(Path program, bool searchPath, const Strings & args,
         Strings args_(args);
         args_.push_front(program);
 
+        restoreSignals();
+
         if (searchPath)
             execvp(program.c_str(), stringsToCharPtrs(args_).data());
         else
@@ -909,16 +911,6 @@ void closeOnExec(int fd)
 }
 
 
-void restoreSIGPIPE()
-{
-    struct sigaction act;
-    act.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
-    act.sa_flags = 0;
-    sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
-    if (sigaction(SIGPIPE, &act, 0)) throw SysError("resetting SIGPIPE");
-}
-
-
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 
@@ -1218,19 +1210,31 @@ void triggerInterrupt()
     }
 }
 
+static sigset_t savedSignalMask;
+
 void startSignalHandlerThread()
 {
+    if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, nullptr, &savedSignalMask))
+        throw SysError("quering signal mask");
+
     sigset_t set;
     sigemptyset(&set);
     sigaddset(&set, SIGINT);
     sigaddset(&set, SIGTERM);
     sigaddset(&set, SIGHUP);
+    sigaddset(&set, SIGPIPE);
     if (pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, nullptr))
         throw SysError("blocking signals");
 
     std::thread(signalHandlerThread, set).detach();
 }
 
+void restoreSignals()
+{
+    if (sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &savedSignalMask, nullptr))
+        throw SysError("restoring signals");
+}
+
 /* RAII helper to automatically deregister a callback. */
 struct InterruptCallbackImpl : InterruptCallback
 {
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 07141ffed..cfaaf1486 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -256,10 +256,6 @@ void closeMostFDs(const set<int> & exceptions);
 /* Set the close-on-exec flag for the given file descriptor. */
 void closeOnExec(int fd);
 
-/* Restore default handling of SIGPIPE, otherwise some programs will
-   randomly say "Broken pipe". */
-void restoreSIGPIPE();
-
 
 /* User interruption. */
 
@@ -423,6 +419,9 @@ void callSuccess(
    on the current thread (and thus any threads created by it). */
 void startSignalHandlerThread();
 
+/* Restore default signal handling. */
+void restoreSignals();
+
 struct InterruptCallback
 {
     virtual ~InterruptCallback() { };