Bug 37592 - Allow usage of distccmon as user to watch over portage compiling
Bug#: 37592 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: minor Priority: P2
Resolution: LATER Assigned To: lisa@gentoo.org Reported By: e.bachmann@xebec.de
Component: Development
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Summary: Allow usage of distccmon as user to watch over portage compiling
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2004-01-08 04:55 0000
Description:   Opened: 2004-01-08 04:55 0000 
My user account is in group portage, so it has access to the .distcc dir used
by portage, yet I still can't use distccmon-* to watch over it.

The problem is that it does a check for orphaned processes using the kill
syscall, but doesn't check the return value correctly.

I reported this bug to the distcc-mailing list, but they don't seem to be very
interrested, so maybe you could add this one-line patch to the distcc ebuild.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge something (FEATURES=distcc...)
2. try to run DISTCC_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/portage/.distcc distccmon-text 1
3. run the same under strace to clearly see the bug. (kill-syscalls failing
with EPERM)

Actual Results:  
distccmon doesn't display any info as it regards every process as dead. 

Expected Results:  
It should display something :)

------- Comment #1 From Ernst Bachmann 2004-01-08 04:57:23 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=23378) [details]
patch to add missing check for errno==EPERM

One-line patch to src/mon.c that fixes the bug.

------- Comment #2 From Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2004-01-08 17:34:25 0000 ------- 
When Martin releases 2.12.1 I'll see if he put this patch into the code. If not
I'll apply it and mark it ~arch.

------- Comment #3 From Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2004-01-09 09:32:31 0000 ------- 
2.12.1 addresses this.