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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil/util.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libutil/util.cc | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc index 3f76be670..1c1c9a9e5 100644 --- a/src/libutil/util.cc +++ b/src/libutil/util.cc @@ -809,7 +809,8 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) 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; @@ -819,7 +820,7 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) } } 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); } @@ -827,8 +828,9 @@ void killUser(uid_t uid) } /* 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 |