On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:38:35AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:41:08PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > > > With a hint from Paul Jantzen I did test this a bit further.  There's
> > > 
> > > That is, Paul Janzen, sorry about that.
> > > 
> > > > code to avoid having a child runing too long. If you have 20s
> > > > patience, you'll see this:
> > > > 
> > > > calendar: uid 1000 did not finish in time
> > 
> > After reading Paul's explanation I found my mistake. The fix works great for
> > calendar -a but not if you call calendar directly on the named pipe. Of 
> > course
> > the latter is not really a problem, so I'm going to remove that patch from 
> > our
> > sources.
> > 
> > Thanks for the explanations.
> > 
> > Any ideas about the other patches?
> 
> I don't think I have a chance to look at them the coming time.
> Any other volunteer here?
> 
>       -Otto

Buete here is Paul's diff. It makes sure all descendants are killed,
insted of only the direct child.

OK?

        -Otto

Index: calendar.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.c,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -u calendar.c
--- calendar.c  12 Sep 2011 21:23:00 -0000      1.27
+++ calendar.c  19 Jan 2012 18:29:22 -0000
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@
                                warn("fork");
                                continue;
                        case 0: /* child */
+                               (void)setpgid(getpid(), getpid());
                                (void)setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
                                if (setusercontext(NULL, pw, pw->pw_uid,
                                    LOGIN_SETALL ^ LOGIN_SETLOGIN))
@@ -214,7 +215,10 @@
                                /* It doesn't _really_ matter if the kill 
fails, e.g.
                                 * if there's only a zombie now.
                                 */
-                               (void)kill(kid, SIGTERM);
+                               if (getpgid(kid) != getpgrp())
+                                       (void)killpg(getpgid(kid), SIGTERM);
+                               else
+                                       (void)kill(kid, SIGTERM);
                                warnx("uid %u did not finish in time", 
pw->pw_uid);
                        }
                        if (time(NULL) - t >= SECSPERDAY)

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