Today I received the following patch from Novell, for better support of newer kernels:

Index: kdelibs-3.5.10/kinit/start_kdeinit.c

--- kdelibs-3.5.10.orig/kinit/start_kdeinit.c +++ kdelibs-3.5.10/kinit/start_kdeinit.c @@ -44,11 +44,30 @@ static int set_protection( pid_t pid, in { char buf[ 1024 ]; int procfile;

• struct stat st;
• /* Newer kernels (noticed in 2.6.36) */
• sprintf( buf, "/proc/%d/oom_score_adj", pid );
• if ( lstat (buf, &st) == 0) {

• if( !enable ) {
  

•   /* Be paranoid and check that the pid we got from the pipe
  

•      belongs to this user. */
  

•   if( st.st_uid != getuid())
  

•       return 0;
  

• }
  

• procfile = open(buf, O_WRONLY);
  

• if( enable )
  

•   write( procfile, "-300", sizeof( "-300" ));
  

• else
  

•   write( procfile, "0", sizeof( "0" ));
  

• close( procfile );
  

• return 1;
  

• }
• sprintf( buf, "/proc/%d/stat", pid ); if( !enable ) { /* Be paranoid and check that the pid we got from the pipe belongs to this user. */

•   struct stat st;
    if( lstat( buf, &st ) < 0 || st.st_uid != getuid())
        return 0;
  

  }

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Committed to SVN.

Thanks!

Tim