Well, since I see this line is already in 0.98.3 I thought I'd just try the
new version instead of patching the old one. :) I've got to recompile the
kernel first though.
Thanks for all the hard work,
Lourdes
Mike Jagdis wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Lourdes A Jones wrote:
>
> > Mike Jagdis wrote:
> > > That would explain a lot. Diald itself wants to be a session
> > > leader so that it can run things like connect etc. in their
> > > own process groups. This is necessary so that killing connect
> > > scripts on time outs works. I made a mental note that it would
> > > break if diald wasn't run as a daemon and forgot I'd never
> > > figured out the necessary magic to make it work...
> >
> > If this is the case you definitely need to change the man
> page and make a
> > note in the readme file.
>
> Oh, I thought a fix would be more appropriate :-)
>
> It's because if we don't fork we are a process group leader
> (bash made us one because that is how job control works). If we
> are a process group leader we can't become a session leader.
> The fix is to change our process group to our parent's group
> first if possible. If we are a process group leader our parent
> must be a different process group. Our parent is either in the
> same session, so we can join its process group, or we have
> already been orphaned and can become a session leader at will.
> If all that sounds complicated just add:
>
> setpgid(0, getppid());
>
> immediately before the setsid() in diald.c:main() :-)
>
> Mike
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