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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + proc-connector-add-event-for-process-becoming-session-leader.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:29:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623202937.GA31252@redhat.com> (raw)

> The act of a process becoming a session leader is a useful signal to a
> supervising init daemon such as Upstart.
...
> @@ -360,8 +360,10 @@ 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);
> +	}

Wouldn't it better to change sys_setsid() then? This looks more clear
imho, and we can move proc_sid_connector() outside of tasklist_lock.

Note also that __set_special_pids() does not neccessary mean we are
becoming a session leader, see daemonize().

Oleg.


             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-23 20:29 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-06-24  8:53 ` + proc-connector-add-event-for-process-becoming-session-leader.patch added to -mm tree Scott James Remnant
2009-06-24 14:44   ` Oleg Nesterov
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2009-06-22 23:19 akpm

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