OpenBSD 6 does not provide pid or uid in SA_SIGINFO

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#129895 (status was 'resolved')

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From afresh1@openbsd.org

Created by afresh1@openbsd.org

OpenBSD 6 still does not support returning pid, gid, or uid with SA_SIGINFO. I didn't talk to many folks about it, but I don't think there is much interest in fixing this, so probably easiest just to continue skipping those.

Inline Patch

--- ext/POSIX/t/sigaction.t.orig	Sat Sep 24 21:22:49 2016
+++ ext/POSIX/t/sigaction.t	Sat Sep 24 21:32:58 2016
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
     $skip{pid}{$^O} = $skip{uid}{$^O} = "not set for kill()"
         if (($^O.$Config{osvers}) =~ /^darwin[0-8]\./
             ||
-            ($^O.$Config{osvers}) =~ /^openbsd[0-5]\./);
+            ($^O.$Config{osvers}) =~ /^openbsd[0-6]\./);
     my $tests = keys %{{ %siginfo, %opt_val }};
     eval 'use POSIX qw(SA_SIGINFO); SA_SIGINFO';
     skip("no SA_SIGINFO", $tests) if $@;

Perl Info

Flags:
    category=library
    severity=medium
    module=POSIX

Site configuration information for perl 5.24.1:

Configured by root at Thu Jan  1  0:00:00 UTC 1970.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 24 subversion 1) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=openbsd, osvers=6.0, archname=amd64-openbsd
    uname='openbsd'
    config_args='-dsE -Dopenbsd_distribution=defined -Dccflags=-DNO_LOCALE_NUMERIC -DNO_LOCALE_COLLATE -Dmksymlinks'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-DNO_LOCALE_NUMERIC -DNO_LOCALE_COLLATE -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-DNO_LOCALE_NUMERIC -DNO_LOCALE_COLLATE -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 20070719 ', gccosandvers='openbsd6.0'
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E  -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc
    perllibs=-lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.17.99
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-R/usr/libdata/perl5/amd64-openbsd/5.24.1/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC ', lddlflags='-shared -fPIC  -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    RC4


@INC for perl 5.24.1:
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/amd64-openbsd
    /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/amd64-openbsd
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/libdata/perl5/amd64-openbsd/5.24.1
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/amd64-openbsd/5.24.1
    /usr/libdata/perl5
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5


Environment for perl 5.24.1:
    HOME=/home/afresh1
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/afresh1/bin:/home/afresh1/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh

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From @tonycoz

On Sun Oct 16 11​:20​:25 2016, afresh1@​openbsd.org wrote​:

OpenBSD 6 still does not support returning pid, gid, or uid with
SA_SIGINFO. I didn't talk to many folks about it, but I don't think
there is much interest in fixing this, so probably easiest just to
continue skipping those.

Thanks, applied as c1b1197.

Tony

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The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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@tonycoz - Status changed from 'open' to 'pending release'

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From @khwilliamson

Thank you for filing this report. You have helped make Perl better.

With the release today of Perl 5.26.0, this and 210 other issues have been
resolved.

Perl 5.26.0 may be downloaded via​:
https://metacpan.org/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.26.0

If you find that the problem persists, feel free to reopen this ticket.

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@khwilliamson - Status changed from 'pending release' to 'resolved'