unblock signals we might want to handle

unblock signals we might want to handle

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 19:15, Christian P. Schmidt <schmidt@digadd.de> wrote:
> After the getty replaces itself with login the pam module pam_mount
> calls mount. This in turn determines that the partition to be mounted is
> LUKS encrypted, and calls cryptsetup. Cryptsetup receives the password,
> unlocks the partition, and calls udevadm settle in order to avoid some
> problems in interaction with LVM.
>
> udevadm settle never returns.
>
> The problem here is that SIGUSR1 and SIGALRM are both blocked in oldmask
> already, and never reach udevadm. No care is ever taken to ensure those
> signals are not blocked.