commit c7b9e0b8ed7076525da185e25c2142b18b4d43e3 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Wed May 4 15:10:36 2016 -0400
Report success when not terminating an already terminated process.
Also, document the actual behavior and return values of tor_terminate_process.
Fixes bug18686; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. --- changes/bug18686 | 5 +++++ src/common/util.c | 11 ++++++++--- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/changes/bug18686 b/changes/bug18686 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23547d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug18686 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): + - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't + need to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already + exited. Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. + diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c index 04cc6b1..65af8a6 100644 --- a/src/common/util.c +++ b/src/common/util.c @@ -3626,8 +3626,13 @@ format_helper_exit_status(unsigned char child_state, int saved_errno, /* Maximum number of file descriptors, if we cannot get it via sysconf() */ #define DEFAULT_MAX_FD 256
-/** Terminate the process of <b>process_handle</b>. - * Code borrowed from Python's os.kill. */ +/** Terminate the process of <b>process_handle</b>, if that process has not + * already exited. + * + * Return 0 if we succeeded in terminating the process (or if the process + * already exited), and -1 if we tried to kill the process but failed. + * + * Based on code originally borrowed from Python's os.kill. */ int tor_terminate_process(process_handle_t *process_handle) { @@ -3647,7 +3652,7 @@ tor_terminate_process(process_handle_t *process_handle) } #endif
- return -1; + return 0; /* We didn't need to kill the process, so report success */ }
/** Return the Process ID of <b>process_handle</b>. */