sd-event: "when exiting no signal event are pending" is a wrong assertion (#5271)
The code make the following assertion: when freeing a event loop object (usually it's done after exiting from the main event loop), no signal events are still queued and are pending. This assertion can be found in event_unmask_signal_data() with "assert(!d->current);" assertion. It appears that this assertion can be wrong at least in a specific case described below. Consider the following example which is inspired from udev: a process defines 3 source events: 2 are created by sd_event_add_signal() and 1 is created by sd_event_add_post(). 1. the process receives the 2 signals consecutively so that signal 'A' source event is queued and pending. Consequently the post source event is also queued and pending. This is done by sd_event_wait(). 2. The callback for signal 'A' is called by sd_event_dispatch(). 3. The next call to sd_event_wait() will queue signal 'B' source event. 4. The callback for the post source event is called and calls sd_event_exit(). 5. the event loop is exited. 6. freeing the event loop object will lead to the assertion failure in event_unmask_signal_data(). This patch simply removes this assertion as it doesn't seem to be a bug if the signal data still reference a signal source at this point. (cherry picked from commit 44708603)
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