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libcurl uses a SIGALRM in combination with sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to be able to abort a DNS lookup when it takes too long. The problem with this in a multi-threaded application is that the signal handler for SIGALRM and the call to siglongjmp can be executed on a thread that is different from the one that initially did the SIGALRM setup and the call to sigsetjmp. In the reported case this triggered a segfault. Disable libcurl's use of signals to avoid this situation. This has the disadvantage of losing the ability to abort synchronous DNS lookups which might result in libcurl getting stuck in a DNS lookup in the worst case. When libcurl was build with an asynchronous DNS backend such as c-ares then there is no problem because the timeout mechanism works without signals here anyway. Reported by Benjamin Wang.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>