Odd handling of signal raised if an illegal syscall is attempted on Android

[mr-nfamous]

BPO	46872
Nosy	@mr-nfamous

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title = 'Odd handling of signal raised if an illegal syscall is attempted on Android'
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[mr-nfamous]

On Android, the following calls generate a SIGSYS signal that is neither blocked by pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK,{SIGSYS}) nor ignored after its handler is set to SIG_IGN:

(os.chroot(path))
os.setgid(rgid)
os.setuid(ruid) 
(os.setegid(gid))
os.setregid(rgid, egid)
os.setreuid(ruid, euid)
os.setresgid(rgid, egid, sgid)
time.clock_settime(clock, time)
time.clock_settime_ns(clock, time)
(socket.sethostname(name))

On the other hand, signal(SIGSYS, lambda s, p: None) will catch the signal, but based on frame it receives (None), I suspect this is a coincidence. Also, the functions with parenthesized names in that list raise the equivalent of OSError(0, "Error", "%s"%args[0]).

[mhsmith]

Most of these functions have now been disabled at build time by #115955. The only missing one is socket.sethostname, which I didn't notice because it isn't available until API level 23, and we're building against level 21. I'll fix that in #116426.