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authorScott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>2009-09-22 16:43:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-23 07:39:29 -0700
commit02b51df1b07b4e9ca823c89284e704cadb323cd1 (patch)
treec68de4809f261d742f597c686826cdc9d047fb4a /kernel
parent88e9d34c727883d7d6f02cf1475b3ec98b8480c7 (diff)
proc connector: add event for process becoming session leader
The act of a process becoming a session leader is a useful signal to a supervising init daemon such as Upstart. While a daemon will normally do this as part of the process of becoming a daemon, it is rare for its children to do so. When the children do, it is nearly always a sign that the child should be considered detached from the parent and not supervised along with it. The poster-child example is OpenSSH; the per-login children call setsid() so that they may control the pty connected to them. If the primary daemon dies or is restarted, we do not want to consider the per-login children and want to respawn the primary daemon without killing the children. This patch adds a new PROC_SID_EVENT and associated structure to the proc_event event_data union, it arranges for this to be emitted when the special PIDTYPE_SID pid is set. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index e47ee8a0613..61bb1761c7b 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -359,8 +359,10 @@ void __set_special_pids(struct pid *pid)
{
struct task_struct *curr = current->group_leader;
- if (task_session(curr) != pid)
+ if (task_session(curr) != pid) {
change_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_SID, pid);
+ proc_sid_connector(curr);
+ }
if (task_pgrp(curr) != pid)
change_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_PGID, pid);