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Commit 02b51df1 authored by Scott James Remnant's avatar Scott James Remnant Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarScott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Acked-by: default avatar"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 88e9d34c
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