Re: +proc-connector-add-event-for-process-becoming-session-leader.patch added to-mm tree

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:29 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > 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().
> 
Actually, I specifically wanted to receive this event if the process
called daemonize() which is why this is done here rather than in
sys_setsid()

The new session is important information to init in figuring out what
the process is up to (ie, fork(), setsid(), fork() = daemonise)

Scott
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