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author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2013-03-18T15·13-0400 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2013-07-30T19·25+0200 |
commit | e87d1a63bdef0ae08f2d94d67fd8daa8fbb63fb4 (patch) | |
tree | f11f69737ce5fce6b9e7c0d62865cf6b640ae636 /doc/manual/bugs.xml | |
parent | 7cf539c728b8f2a4478c0384d3174842e1e0cced (diff) |
killUser: Don't let the child kill itself on Apple
The kill(2) in Apple's libc follows POSIX semantics, which means that kill(-1, SIGKILL) will kill the calling process too. Since nix has no way to distinguish between the process successfully killing everything and the process being killed by a rogue builder in that case, it can't safely conclude that killUser was successful. Luckily, the actual kill syscall takes a parameter that determines whether POSIX semantics are followed, so we can call that syscall directly and avoid the issue on Apple. Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
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