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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-12-03T00·52+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-12-03T00·52+0000
commit714fa24cfb5afeb144549e0cc4808cc2a1c459cf (patch)
tree97faccbf4a0390ee2452a313a5d34cad70e45458 /src/nix-worker
parente25fad691aa3ccb492c4fb8840289f76151e553e (diff)
* Run the worker in a separate session to prevent terminal signals
  from interfering.

Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix-worker')
-rw-r--r--src/nix-worker/main.cc6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-worker/main.cc b/src/nix-worker/main.cc
index fef2c2958aa9..cf550895e4b2 100644
--- a/src/nix-worker/main.cc
+++ b/src/nix-worker/main.cc
@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ void run(Strings args)
     if (slave) {
         FdSource source(STDIN_FILENO);
         FdSink sink(STDOUT_FILENO);
+
+        /* This prevents us from receiving signals from the terminal
+           when we're running in setuid mode. */
+        if (setsid() == -1)
+            throw SysError(format("creating a new session"));
+
         processConnection(source, sink);
     }