> Hi! > I don't think this is the right place to request this help, but I > don't know a better one at time... (RFH seems to be too "big") > The problem is the following: PackageKit (Debian package > "src:packagekit") recently became Linux-specific by accident, and I > need someone who knows *BSD/portable-programming better than I do to > make it compile on *BSD again. > The problem is this code: > http://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/blobs/master/lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-spawn-polkit-agent.c > On *BSD I get: > pk-spawn-polkit-agent.c:24:23: fatal error: sys/prctl.h: No such file > or directory > compilation terminated. > make[5]: *** [libpackagekit_glib2_la-pk-spawn-polkit-agent.lo] Error 1 > [...] Well, the use of prctl is inherently unportable. So instead of having the forked agent set up a signal in case of death of the parent, install a proper signal handler right in the parent's code that kills all forked agents (so keep a container containing all agent pids) upon reception of a signal. Hope this helps, Michael
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