[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#645223: Bug#645223: schroot: 15killprocs has a race condition when killing processes

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:40:56PM +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> Invoking /bin/kill on processes fails if the process already
> quit by itself while the schroot shutdown runs. Because of "set -e"
> this causes the whole shutdown to fail.
> 
> I have seen this occasionally in a nightly testing setup involving
> a D-Bus session: when the D-Bus daemon stops, all other processes
> depending on it also shut down automatically, with or without being
> killed.
> 
> Attached a patch which wraps kill in a function which merely logs
> the problem instead of aborting.

Many thanks for the patch, it looks good.  I'll test and apply it
shortly.


Regards,
Roger

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