slock

simple X display locker utility
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commit 3abbffa4934a62146e995ee7c2cf3ba50991b4ad
parent 6a52a85a1ac87b29048863d599a8b0f0ee712482
Author: FRIGN <dev@frign.de>
Date:   Sun, 14 Feb 2016 01:28:37 +0100

Simplify the oom-taming-function

There really is no need to source a defined variable from a linux
header. The OOM-rank ranges from -1000 to 1000, so we can safely
hardcode -1000, which is a sane thing to do given slock is suid and
we don't want to play around too much here anyway.

On another notice, let's not forget that this still is a shitty
heuristic. The OOM-killer still can kill us (thus I also changed
the wording in the error-message. We do not disable the OOM-killer,
we're just hiding.

Diffstat:
Mslock.c | 20++++++--------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/slock.c b/slock.c @@ -60,28 +60,20 @@ die(const char *errstr, ...) #ifdef __linux__ #include <fcntl.h> -#include <linux/oom.h> static void dontkillme(void) { int fd; - int length; - char value[64]; fd = open("/proc/self/oom_score_adj", O_WRONLY); - if (fd < 0 && errno == ENOENT) + if (fd < 0 && errno == ENOENT) { return; - - /* convert OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN to string for writing */ - length = snprintf(value, sizeof(value), "%d\n", OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN); - - /* bail on truncation */ - if (length >= sizeof(value)) - die("buffer too small\n"); - - if (fd < 0 || write(fd, value, length) != length || close(fd) != 0) - die("cannot disable the out-of-memory killer for this process (make sure to suid or sgid slock)\n"); + } + if (fd < 0 || write(fd, "-1000\n", (sizeof("-1000\n") - 1)) != + (sizeof("-1000\n") - 1) || close(fd) != 0) { + die("can't tame the oom-killer. is suid or sgid set?\n"); + } } #endif