Re: [PATCH 0/3] orphaned pgrp fixes

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>]

On 03/05, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> writes:
> 
> > I am hopeless, I can't understand orphaned pgrps.
> 
> I will give it a quick try.
> When you login in text mode you get a fresh session (setsid).
> If you are using job control in your shell each job is assigned
> a separate process group (setpgrp).
> 
> The shell and all process groups are in the same session.
> 
> Intuitively a process group is considered orphaned when there is
> are no processes in the session that know about it and can wake it
> up.  The goal is to prevent processes that will never wake up if
> they are stopped with ^Z.
> 
> A process is defined as knowing about a process in a process group
> when it is a parent of that process.

Thanks Eric. This does help.

Stupid question, just to be sure. Suppose that SIGTSTP was sent by a
"regular" kill_pid_info() (not by tty or kill_pgrp_info). In that case
get_signal_to_deliver() still must check is_current_pgrp_orphaned(),
yes?

> The task_tgid_nr_ns(p->real_parent, p->nsproxy->pid_ns) == 1 check is
> the proper check, as it handles namespaces properly.  If we need to
> retain it.
>
> I don't believe we need to retain the check for init at all. sysvinit
> doesn't use that feature and I would be surprised if any other init
> did.  Except for covering programming bugs which make testing harder
> I don't see how a version of init could care.
> 
> Further as init=/bin/bash is a common idiom for getting into a
> simplified system and debugging it, there is a case for job control
> to work properly for init.   Unless I am misreading things the check 
> for init prevent us from using job control from our first process.
> Which seems like it would make init=/bin/bash painful if job control
> was ever enabled.
>
> I believe that the only reason with a weird check for init like we are
> performing that we are POSIX compliant is that our init process can
> count as a special system process and can escape the definition.
> 
> Therefore I think the code would be more maintainable, and the system
> would be less surprising, and more useful if we removed this special
> case processing of init altogether.

Looks like a nice changelog for the patch ;)

Oleg.