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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:31 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, scott@...ntu.com, johnpol@....mipt.ru, matthltc@...ibm.com, oleg@...sign.ru Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] proc connector: add event for process becoming session leader On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:32:03 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org > Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:05:47 -0700 > > > From: Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com> > > > > 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@...ux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] > > Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com> > > Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com> > > Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> > > Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> > > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Ta. > This is more process handling level stuff than actual networking > or connector bits, so it should probably be merged via akpm's > usual patch bombs or some other relevant tree. > > Andrew, if you really want, I can take this into net-next-2.6 No probs, I'll send it for 2.6.32-rc1. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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