C program launched by start-stop-daemon fails to catch signals

[CN <cnliou9@fastmail.fm>]

The following compilable C++ program catches signals as expected if it
runs directly from shell /tmp/a.out.

However, this program fails to catch any signal and silently terminates
if it is fired by Debian's start-stop-daemon. (My real life multiple
threaded program does not silently terminates. Instead, segmentation
fault occurs from pthread libray.)

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Better code formatted message can be found here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37076470/c-program-launched-by-start-stop-daemon-fails-to-catch-signals
)

File "/tmp/t.cpp":

#include <iostream>
#include <signal.h> //sigaction, signal()
#include <unistd.h> //sleep()
#include <cstring> //memset()
#include <cstdlib> //exit()
static int caught_signal=-1;

void signal_handler(int signal_number)
{
    std::cerr << "Caught signal# " << signal_number << std::endl;
    caught_signal=signal_number;
}

void accept_signals()
{
    struct sigaction actions;
    memset(&actions,0,sizeof(actions));
    actions.sa_handler=signal_handler;
    int result;
    if(
        (result=sigaction(SIGTERM,&actions,NULL)) != 0
        || (result=sigaction(SIGHUP,&actions,NULL)) != 0
    ){
        std::cerr << "sigaction() failed: " << result << std::endl;
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
}

int main(int argc,char ** argv)
{
    accept_signals();
    while(true){
        if(caught_signal >= 0){
            switch(caught_signal){
                case SIGHUP:{
                    std::cerr << "Reload" << std::endl;
                    break;
                }
                default:{ //SIGTERM
                    std::cerr << "Terminate" << std::endl;
                    return 0;
                }
            }
        }
        sleep(1);
    }
    return 0;
}

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File "/tmp/t.sh":

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:         progam
# Default-Start:    2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:     0 1 6
# Short-Description:    My Program
# Description:      Test signals.
### END INIT INFO


PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/tmp/a.out
NAME=progam
DESC="My Program"
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
PIDFILE=/tmp/progam.pid

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

#set -x

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" $NAME
        start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE
        --exec $DAEMON -b -m --
        log_end_msg $?
        ;;
    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" $NAME
        start-stop-daemon --stop --retry TERM/10 --quiet --pidfile
        $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --remove-pidfile
        log_end_msg $?
        ;;
    reload|force-reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" $NAME
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --retry 10 --quiet
        --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
        log_end_msg $?
        ;;
    restart)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" $NAME
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
    status)
        status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit
        $?
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME
        {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

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Running results:

john@host:/tmp$ ./t.sh start
[ ok ] Starting My Program: progam
john@host:/tmp$ ps ax|grep a.out
 8911 ?        S      0:00 /tmp/a.out
 8931 pts/4    S+     0:00 grep a.out
john@host:/tmp$ ./t.sh stop
[ ok ] Stopping My Program: progam
john@host:/tmp$ ps ax|grep a.out
 8961 pts/4    S+     0:00 grep a.out
john@host:/tmp$ ./a.out&
[1] 8963
john@host:/tmp$ ps ax|grep a.out
 8963 pts/4    S      0:00 ./a.out
 8967 pts/4    S+     0:00 grep a.out
john@host:/tmp$ kill -TERM 8963
john@host:/tmp$ Caught signal# 15
Terminate
ps ax|grep a.out
 8973 pts/4    S+     0:00 grep a.out
[1]+  Done                    ./a.out
john@host:/tmp$ exit

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Why the program terminates, which I believe crashes, when signals arrive
if it is launched by the aforementioned shell script?

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