Package: xserver-common
Version: 4.1.0-16
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
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this fixes a minor cosmetic bug: the xserver reports "process set to
nice value 0 instead of XXX" when in fact the server *was* set to the
correct values. This happens because "nice" in linux does not return
the nice value set, but instead returns 0.
- -- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux heron 2.4.18-lsm #1 Sun Jan 19 10:50:03 PST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xserver-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-16 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
- --------patch is below this line--------------------------
- --- xserver-wrapper.c Thu Jan 30 23:02:32 2003
+++ xserver-wrapper.c.new Thu Jan 30 23:10:07 2003
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
* specify "-help" option to get a usage message (26 Dec 2001)
* Branden Robinson: change nice() usage to fit SuSv2 semantics; see Debian Bug
* #140012
+ * Evan Buswell: use getpriority to get nice value; return value of "nice"
+ * is 0 on success.
*
* This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
@@ -83,6 +85,8 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
#define VT_MAJOR_DEV 4
#define X_WRAPPER_CONFIG_FILE "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config"
@@ -276,8 +281,9 @@
seteuid(0);
/* DEBUG fprintf(stderr, "X: attempting nice() with real uid = %d; euid = %d\n",
getuid(), geteuid()); */
errno = 0;
- - intval = nice(niceval);
+ nice(niceval);
if (errno) perror("X: warning; nice() of process failed");
+ intval = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0);
if (intval != niceval) (void) fprintf(stderr, "warning: process set to nice "
"value %d instead of %d as requested\n", intval, niceval);
/* DEBUG exit(0); */
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