On 7/1/20 3:47 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
systemd doesn't explicitly reparent processes; the kernel just always
reparents processes to pid 1 when the previous parent no longer exists.
Overall, pid 1 is a legitimate recipient of SIGCHLD regardless of which
init system is being used.
In this c
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:03 AM Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 6/30/20 4:18 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it double forks or forks a child off (callout script?) that
> > double forks somewhere?
> >
> > I don't know your software, it's probably best to ping the authors of
> > it about this,
On 6/30/20 4:18 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
Maybe it double forks or forks a child off (callout script?) that
double forks somewhere?
I don't know your software, it's probably best to ping the authors of
it about this, they should know what their software does.
LOL! I am the author.
So I
On Mo, 29.06.20 12:19, Ian Pilcher (arequip...@gmail.com) wrote:
> I originally posted a variation of the question on the SELinux mailing
> list, but the more I look at this the more I realize that it really
> isn't a SELinux questions. I'm not really sure that it's a systemd
> question either, b
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 02:11:06PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 6/29/20 2:00 PM, Vito Caputo wrote:
> > I don't know about freecusd, but if it uses a fire-and-forget approach
> > to launching helpers, as in it double-forks, so it doesn't need to
> > bother with asynchronously reaping zombies, the
On 6/29/20 2:00 PM, Vito Caputo wrote:
I don't know about freecusd, but if it uses a fire-and-forget approach
to launching helpers, as in it double-forks, so it doesn't need to
bother with asynchronously reaping zombies, then the second fork
becomes a child of init. That results in the second fo
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:19:54PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>
>
> Is there a circumstance in which the grandchild (freecusd_smart_helper)
> would send SIGCHLD to systemd while its parent is still running?
>
I don't know about freecusd, but if it uses a fire-and-forget approach
to launching hel
I originally posted a variation of the question on the SELinux mailing
list, but the more I look at this the more I realize that it really
isn't a SELinux questions. I'm not really sure that it's a systemd
question either, but it definitely falls into the area of Linux process
management, so I'm
