The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6d365230885ff9221a83efb9e262818cbe384b32
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Sep 25 03:51:49 2009 +0200
s-s-d: Call warning instead of fatal on ioprio_set error
This feature should be considered optional, as non-Linux architectures
do not support it, neither do older Linux kernels, and it seems some
virtualization Linux kernels like the OpenVZ patch do not allow it.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8a00b78..65e10fa 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Make the upstream build system silent by default with automake 1.11 or
newer, and always verbose when building the Debian packages.
* Fix small leak when parsing ‘--ignore-depends’ option values.
+ * When start-stop-daemon fails to set the io scheduling warn instead of
+ finishing fatally.
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Add versioned dependency on base-files (>= 5.0.0) to dpkg-dev to ensure
diff --git a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c b/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
index 8ca4e56..e282f03 100644
--- a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
+++ b/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
@@ -616,7 +616,8 @@ set_io_schedule(struct res_schedule *sched)
io_sched_mask = IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(sched->policy, sched->priority);
if (ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, getpid(), io_sched_mask) == -1)
- fatal("Unable to alter IO priority to mask %i", io_sched_mask);
+ warning("Unable to alter IO priority to mask %i (%s)\n",
+ io_sched_mask, strerror(errno));
#endif
}
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