[Nix-dev] 'Cannot kill processes' when using build users group on snow leopard

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Nathaniel Griswold wrote:

> Anyone had any luck getting build user groups working on snow leopard?

I don't think this feature has ever been used on a non-Linux system.  So thanks
for trying it out :-)

> reverse:nixpkgs griswold$ nix-build  -A git
> ...
> error: cannot kill processes for uid `50001'

Hm.  Could you apply the attached patch?  It won't fix the problem, but it will
hopefully give some more information about what's going wrong.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
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