Package: mouseemu
Version: 0.15-7
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
If you run mouseemu as non-root, it crashes rather than exiting
gracefully. Patch attached. This was originally reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mouseemu/+bug/112337
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -u mouseemu-0.15/debian/patches/63_pidfile.dpatch mouseemu-0.15/debian/patches/63_pidfile.dpatch
--- mouseemu-0.15/debian/patches/63_pidfile.dpatch
+++ mouseemu-0.15/debian/patches/63_pidfile.dpatch
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
@DPATCH@
diff -urNad mouseemu-0.15~/mouseemu.c mouseemu-0.15/mouseemu.c
---- mouseemu-0.15~/mouseemu.c 2007-02-08 01:31:42.000000000 +0000
-+++ mouseemu-0.15/mouseemu.c 2007-02-08 01:32:54.000000000 +0000
-@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@
+--- mouseemu-0.15~/mouseemu.c 2007-05-25 17:22:11.000000000 +0100
++++ mouseemu-0.15/mouseemu.c 2007-05-25 17:23:00.000000000 +0100
+@@ -755,6 +755,7 @@
struct sigaction sa;
sigset_t mask, oldmask;
@@ -16,12 +16,16 @@
/* SIGHUP and SIGALRM are only useful in the child */
memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));
-@@ -759,6 +760,11 @@
+@@ -762,6 +763,15 @@
sigaction(SIGHUP, &sa, NULL);
sigaction(SIGALRM, &sa, NULL);
+ /* write PID file so the user can signal us for device rescans */
+ pidfile = fopen("/var/run/mouseemu.pid", "w");
++ if (!pidfile) {
++ perror("mouseemu: can't open /var/run/mouseemu.pid");
++ exit(1);
++ }
+ fprintf(pidfile, "%d\n", pid);
+ fclose(pidfile);
+
