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    proc connector: add event for process becoming session leader · 02b51df1
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    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@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarScott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
    Acked-by: default avatar"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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