Re: RFFE: portmap 5-11

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:09:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:

> >    * Fixed "SIGCHLD handler doesn't preserve errno", closes: #306929.
> >      Patch by Alexander Achenbach <xela@slit.de>.

> Not important or RC is it?

This fix looks like an application of a fix that was made to some of the
NIS services where errno values altered by a signal hander could cause
the error handling code to get confused, thinking something catastrophic
had gone wrong (for example, replacing EINTR with something else).

I can't see any similar checks in the portmap code, though.

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