renice: add comment about getpwnam/NOFORK interaction

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Denys Vlasenko 2018-01-14 19:40:00 +01:00
parent 9967978551
commit c4144ca3a5

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@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
*
* Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this source tree.
*/
/* Notes:
* Setting an absolute priority was obsoleted in SUSv2 and removed
* in SUSv3. However, the common linux version of renice does
@ -95,6 +94,7 @@ int renice_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
/* Process an ID arg. */
if (which == PRIO_USER) {
struct passwd *p;
/* NB: use of getpwnam makes it risky to be NOFORK, switch to getpwnam_r? */
p = getpwnam(arg);
if (!p) {
bb_error_msg("unknown user %s", arg);