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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-05-04 15:12:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-05-04 15:12:11 -0400 |
| commit | b8e8910d60e41844ce4ab37d9306cb8e8b5aec91 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d7089347909425cf72261e9b92c06c926c52a61 /src/common/util.c | |
| parent | 31332a878db0d8f8d53fe4e535ec9ae812675315 (diff) | |
| parent | c7b9e0b8ed7076525da185e25c2142b18b4d43e3 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'bug18686_025' into maint-0.2.8
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/util.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c index 2351faf503..008c682b3b 100644 --- a/src/common/util.c +++ b/src/common/util.c @@ -3928,8 +3928,13 @@ 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) { @@ -3949,7 +3954,7 @@ 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>. */ |