Hi,
Nathaniel Griswold wrote:
> Anyone had any luck getting build user groups working on snow leopard?
I don't think this feature has ever been used on a non-Linux system. So thanks
for trying it out :-)
> reverse:nixpkgs griswold$ nix-build -A git
> ...
> error: cannot kill processes for uid `50001'
Hm. Could you apply the attached patch? It won't fix the problem, but it will
hopefully give some more information about what's going wrong.
--
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
Index: src/libutil/util.cc
===================================================================
--- src/libutil/util.cc (revision 20726)
+++ src/libutil/util.cc (working copy)
@@ -810,7 +810,8 @@
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 @@
}
} 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 @@
}
/* 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
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