On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:39 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > I pushed the revert, thanks!
Thank you! I'm attaching another patch that tries to make settrans handle this case a tiny bit better: if we failed to set the translator (either because of this issue, or for any other reason), let's shut the translator back down instead of leaving it in limbo. Sergey P.S. There must be something wrong with your mailserver. I only received a bunch of replies form you just a few minutes ago, and seemingly so did the archive [0], but your citation indicates that you have sent the reply promptly after my message. [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/ -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] utils/settrans: Ask translator to go away on errors If the translator starts up fine, but we fail to set it as the active translator on the underlying node for whatever reason, ask it to shut down again, instead of leaving it orphaned. This is what mount(1) does already. To test: $ settrans -a /dev/null /hurd/hello settrans: /dev/null: Operation not permitted $ pgrep hello 1141 That means PID 1141, the translator we started, is still alive. With this patch it shuts down, and pgrep returns nothing. --- utils/settrans.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utils/settrans.c b/utils/settrans.c index 9c9f087e..f07d294b 100644 --- a/utils/settrans.c +++ b/utils/settrans.c @@ -396,7 +396,11 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) argz, argz_len, active_control, MACH_MSG_TYPE_COPY_SEND); if (err) - error (5, err, "%s", node_name); + { + if (active_control != MACH_PORT_NULL) + fsys_goaway (active_control, FSYS_GOAWAY_FORCE); + error (5, err, "%s", node_name); + } } if (chroot_command) -- 2.31.1