From 02b51df1b07b4e9ca823c89284e704cadb323cd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:43:44 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Matt Helsley Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov Acked-by: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index e47ee8a06135..61bb1761c7b8 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); -- cgit v1.2.3