xinetd may hang when receiving an unhandled signal when logging messages to syslog in RHEL 5

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Issue

  • xinetd sometimes hangs when receiving an unhandled signal when it is logging messages to syslog
  • One such example is when xinetd receives a SIGCONT or SIGSEGV immediately after getting a SIGHUP

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • xinetd-2.3.14-10

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