Signal delivered while blocked

[Noah Misch <noah at leadboat dot com>]

The attached demonstration program blocks signals (with sigprocmask()) to
achieve mutual exclusion between signal handlers.  It aborts upon receipt of a
blocked signal.  On "CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.7.0(0.306/5/3) 2017-02-12 13:18 x86_64",
signals regularly arrive despite being blocked.  Essential parts of the
program include handling two signal numbers and having handlers run for at
least 1-2ms; this problem goes away if I remove one of those attributes.
GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, and "CYGWIN_NT-6.0 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:57
i686" never deliver a blocked signal to this program.  I think this Cygwin
behavior is non-conforming.

PostgreSQL trouble prompted this report; the demonstration program is based on
the "postmaster" architecture.  postmaster SIGCHLD and SIGUSR1 handlers block
most signals, and they cannot cope with interrupts from blocked signals.

Thanks,
nm

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