When I was doing an emerge kde in the root console (vc/1), I also did emerge vim in console 2 (vc/2). When I killed the second emerge while it was downloading the sources, the first emerge (of kde) was also killed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login as root, emerge something large 2. goto the second console, emerge something else 3. do a ctrl c => both emerge's are crashing Actual Results: Both emerge's where killed. They both exited with an error warning. Expected Results: The software should only have killed the second instance of the emerge. Gentoo 2004.0 Pentium 4 3.0 ghz Ht
Err... no. This isn't possible. If you can duplicate it, reopen with details of *exactly* how you're managing this- basically, emerge instances don't really know of each other. They only thing they know of is locks- that wouldn't cause both instances to die though.
On my Vmware installation with Gentoo 2004.2, Portage version (emerge --version) 2.0.50-r9 (gcc 3.3.3, glibc 2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel) I can kill on of both emerges in progress without the other one quiting.
