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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libutil/util.cc | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc index eec60867dfc8..790c2576802e 100644 --- a/src/libutil/util.cc +++ b/src/libutil/util.cc @@ -810,7 +810,8 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) case 0: try { /* child */ - if (setuid(uid) == -1) abort(); + if (setuid(uid) == -1) + throw SysError("setting uid"); while (true) { if (kill(-1, SIGKILL) == 0) break; @@ -820,7 +821,7 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) } } catch (std::exception & e) { - std::cerr << format("killing processes beloging to uid `%1%': %1%") + std::cerr << format("killing processes belonging to uid `%1%': %2%") % uid % e.what() << std::endl; quickExit(1); } @@ -828,8 +829,9 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) } /* parent */ - if (pid.wait(true) != 0) - throw Error(format("cannot kill processes for uid `%1%'") % uid); + int status = pid.wait(true); + if (status != 0) + throw Error(format("cannot kill processes for uid `%1%': %2%") % uid % statusToString(status)); /* !!! We should really do some check to make sure that there are no processes left running under `uid', but there is no portable |