esx: Disable libcurl's use of signals to fix a segfault
libcurl uses a SIGALRM in combination with sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to be able to abort a DNS lookup when it takes too long. The problem with this in a multi-threaded application is that the signal handler for SIGALRM and the call to siglongjmp can be executed on a thread that is different from the one that initially did the SIGALRM setup and the call to sigsetjmp. In the reported case this triggered a segfault. Disable libcurl's use of signals to avoid this situation. This has the disadvantage of losing the ability to abort synchronous DNS lookups which might result in libcurl getting stuck in a DNS lookup in the worst case. When libcurl was build with an asynchronous DNS backend such as c-ares then there is no problem because the timeout mechanism works without signals here anyway. Reported by Benjamin Wang.
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