summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--platform-tracing.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/platform-tracing.c b/platform-tracing.c
index c2810f2d..80488bf7 100644
--- a/platform-tracing.c
+++ b/platform-tracing.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#include "log.h"
@@ -42,7 +43,16 @@ platform_disable_tracing(int strict)
/* On FreeBSD, we should make this process untraceable */
int disable_trace = PROC_TRACE_CTL_DISABLE;
- if (procctl(P_PID, 0, PROC_TRACE_CTL, &disable_trace) && strict)
+ /*
+ * On FreeBSD, we should make this process untraceable.
+ * pid=0 means "this process" and but some older kernels do not
+ * understand that, so retry with our own pid before failing.
+ */
+ if (procctl(P_PID, 0, PROC_TRACE_CTL, &disable_trace) == 0)
+ return;
+ if (procctl(P_PID, getpid(), PROC_TRACE_CTL, &disable_trace) == 0)
+ return;
+ if (strict)
fatal("unable to make the process untraceable: %s",
strerror(errno));
#endif