since xmlrpc is still segfaulting even in its own process, disable core dumps in the child and retry the xmlrpc call up to 3 times if the child terminates abnormally. jumping through hoops ftw!

daemon/aux.h

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 
 
 
@@ -177,4 +178,12 @@ void thread_create_detach(void (*)(void *), void *);
 
 
 
+static inline int rlim(int res, rlim_t val) {
+	struct rlimit rlim;
+
+	ZERO(rlim);
+	rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max = val;
+	return setrlimit(res, &rlim);
+}
+
 #endif

daemon/call.c

@@ -549,19 +549,35 @@ void xmlrpc_kill_calls(void *p) {
 	xmlrpc_value *r;
 	pid_t pid;
 	sigset_t ss;
+	int i = 0;
+	int status;
 
 	while (xh->tags) {
 		pid = fork();
 
 		if (pid) {
-			waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
-			xh->tags = g_slist_delete_link(xh->tags, xh->tags);
+retry:
+			pid = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+			if ((pid > 0 && WIFEXITED(status)) || i >= 3) {
+				xh->tags = g_slist_delete_link(xh->tags, xh->tags);
+				i = 0;
+			}
+			else {
+				if (pid == -1 && errno == EINTR)
+					goto retry;
+				i++;
+			}
 			continue;
 		}
 
 		/* child process */
+		rlim(RLIMIT_CORE, 0);
 		sigemptyset(&ss);
 		sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &ss, NULL);
+
+		for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
+			close(i);
+
 		alarm(5);
 
 		xmlrpc_env_init(&e);

daemon/main.c

@@ -105,14 +105,6 @@ static void signals(void) {
 	pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &ss, NULL);
 }
 
-static int rlim(int res, rlim_t val) {
-	struct rlimit rlim;
-
-	ZERO(rlim);
-	rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max = val;
-	return setrlimit(res, &rlim);
-}
-
 static void resources(void) {
 	int tryv;