Ubuntu
checkbox package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #553328
  3. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 553328

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Jerome Lacoste (jerome-lacoste) wrote :

I've verified that 0.9.2 fixes the 100 CPU issue. (for those who can't wait the merge into lucid, use the ppa:cr3/ppa repository)

But I wonder if the fix isn't just a workaround of a gksu problem. Because ggksu doesn't seem to handle signals properly. I.e. killing the gksu process doesn't kill the children. For example If I do this:

mkdir -p /tmp/checkboxMsblJo
touch /tmp/checkboxMsblJo/input
touch /tmp/checkboxMsblJo/output
gksu -k -- PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games /usr/share/checkbox/backend /tmp/checkboxMsblJo/input /tmp/checkboxMsblJo/output

and kill the gksu process (e.g. CTRL-C), I will still have a 100% CPU process running. So the fix works, but only because it destroys the pipe that backend is waiting on.

Should a bug be opened against gksu ?