Hello,
Martin-E��ric Race noted in my merge request that nptd was failing with
a permission denied error, which seems to come from a setpriority call.
The error is:
ntpd: can't set priority: Permission denied
and is a result of a call as follows:
if (setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -20) == -1)
warn("can't set priority");
The attached C file is a short reproducer that consistently fails when
calling setpriority. I wasn't able to debug this quite much. setpriority
is a bit hard to follow with its inner function and several counters.
Anyway, currently I would like to get some easily spotted, obvious ideas
I may be missing or testing, if you like, the program to see whether in
your systems also fails or I have something wrong in mine.
Michael Kelly, from the mails it seems you are also working on OpenNTPd.
Have you encountered this issue? Have a patch?
Regards,
Diego
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int err = setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -20);
perror ("setpriority");
return err == -1 ? 1 : 0;
}
