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