Skip to content

FIX: Python segfaults on alphine linux when call read_event #131 #174

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
+3 −1
Open

FIX: Python segfaults on alphine linux when call read_event #131 #174

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion python2/pyinotify.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1228,7 +1228,9 @@ def read_events(self):
"""
buf_ = array.array('i', [0])
# get event queue size
if fcntl.ioctl(self._fd, termios.FIONREAD, buf_, 1) == -1:
# don't pass `mutate_flag` to the `fcntl.ioctl`, it may cause segfault on some
# systems, e.g. alpine linux (see https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/5981)
if fcntl.ioctl(self._fd, termios.FIONREAD, buf_) == -1:
return
queue_size = buf_[0]
if queue_size < self._threshold:
Expand Down