[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix error message if PR_SET_CHILD_REAPER is not available
shawn
shawnlandden at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 10:38:17 PDT 2012
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 18:38 +0200, Marius Tolzmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just hit some possible wrong error messages. Since prctl() is a
> system call it won't return -errno but just -1 and set errno to some value.
>
> The attached patch should fix those error messages, if, for example, PR_SET_CHILD_REAPER is
> not yet implemented due to an older kernel.
Awesome, I ran into this one too, and thought it was getting errno set
to the wrong value, (EPERM in this case) and was totally confused. It
was just cached....
>
> BTW the REQUIREMENTS section in the README still has Linux kernel >= 2.6.39 in it. May be it
> should at least be updated to reflect a *recommended* version of Linux kernel >= 3.4?
> Because the messages I just tried to fix are log_error() and not log_warning().
>
> Best,
>
> Marius Tolzmann
>
>
> Marius Tolzmann (1):
> main: fix error message if PR_SET_CHILD_REAPER is not available
>
> src/core/main.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
--
-Shawn Landden
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