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| -rw-r--r-- | nix/libutil/util.cc | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nix/libutil/util.cc b/nix/libutil/util.cc index fb2dfad1f7..17d145b4c6 100644 --- a/nix/libutil/util.cc +++ b/nix/libutil/util.cc @@ -861,6 +861,10 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) which means "follow POSIX", which we don't want here */ if (syscall(SYS_kill, -1, SIGKILL, false) == 0) break; +#elif __GNU__ + /* Killing all a user's processes using PID=-1 does currently + not work on the Hurd. */ + if (kill(getpid(), SIGKILL) == 0) break; #else if (kill(-1, SIGKILL) == 0) break; #endif @@ -873,6 +877,10 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) }); int status = pid.wait(true); +#if __GNU__ + /* When the child killed itself, status = SIGKILL. */ + if (status == SIGKILL) return; +#endif if (status != 0) throw Error(format("cannot kill processes for uid `%1%': %2%") % uid % statusToString(status)); |