rawhide openssh-server update kills sshd

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Thu Jul 28 18:32:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, 27.07.11 16:56, James Antill (james at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> > >  It looks more like the first victim of systemd using cgroups as a
> > > replacement for setsid() etc. ... pam_systemd being the first return
> > > volley in that war. *sigh*.
> > 
> > systemd is not using cgroups as replacement for setsid().
> 
>  And then you go on to explain how pam_systemd is required so that it
> can do the setsid() like "remove me from the session" call ... and thus.
> not get hit with the kill() sent to the previous session.
>  I'm not saying that cgroups doesn't do _other_ things as well ... but
> using it as a shiner setsid() is just doomed to a war where everyone
> puts "cgroup calls" where setsid() calls currently are.

setsid() is primarily a call to implement job control in shells.

systemd is not involved in job control in shells. Never has, never will
be.

Lennart

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