From: Ilias Tsitsimpis Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:27:46 +0300 Subject: Don't exit if failed to adjust OOM score Adjusting the OOM score needs CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capabilities or the setuid bit. But we don't want to setuid our binary and not all filesystems support setting capabilities to executables. Modify slock to not fail if it cannot adjust the OOM score. Forwarded: no (Debian specific) --- slock/slock.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/slock/slock.c b/slock/slock.c index cf49555..de0cd72 100644 --- a/slock/slock.c +++ b/slock/slock.c @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ dontkillme(void) 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"); + fprintf(stderr, "cannot disable the out-of-memory" + " killer for this process\n"); } #endif