syncthing/lib/osutil/lowprio_linux.go
Jakob Borg e147db5233 lib/osutil: Check PGID before trying to set it (fixes #4679)
Fixes "permission denied" return when are already process group /
session leader.

GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4678
2018-01-17 12:32:11 +00:00

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// Copyright (C) 2018 The Syncthing Authors.
//
// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
// You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
package osutil
import (
"os"
"syscall"
"github.com/pkg/errors"
)
const ioprioClassShift = 13
type ioprioClass int
const (
ioprioClassRT ioprioClass = iota + 1
ioprioClassBE
ioprioClassIdle
)
const (
ioprioWhoProcess = iota + 1
ioprioWhoPGRP
ioprioWhoUser
)
func ioprioSet(class ioprioClass, value int) error {
res, _, err := syscall.Syscall(syscall.SYS_IOPRIO_SET,
uintptr(ioprioWhoProcess), 0,
uintptr(class)<<ioprioClassShift|uintptr(value))
if res == 0 {
return nil
}
return err
}
// SetLowPriority lowers the process CPU scheduling priority, and possibly
// I/O priority depending on the platform and OS.
func SetLowPriority() error {
// Move ourselves to a new process group so that we can use the process
// group variants of Setpriority etc to affect all of our threads in one
// go. If this fails, bail, so that we don't affect things we shouldn't.
// If we are already the leader of our own process group, do nothing.
if pgid, err := syscall.Getpgid(0); err != nil {
// This error really shouldn't happen
return errors.Wrap(err, "get process group")
} else if pgid != os.Getpid() {
// We are not process group leader. Elevate!
if err := syscall.Setpgid(0, 0); err != nil {
return errors.Wrap(err, "set process group")
}
}
// Process zero is "self", niceness value 9 is something between 0
// (default) and 19 (worst priority).
if err := syscall.Setpriority(syscall.PRIO_PGRP, 0, 9); err != nil {
return errors.Wrap(err, "set niceness")
}
// Best effort, somewhere to the end of the scale (0 through 7 being the
// range).
err := ioprioSet(ioprioClassBE, 5)
return errors.Wrap(err, "set I/O priority") // wraps nil as nil
}