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authorOren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>2006-01-08 01:03:58 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:14:01 -0800
commite19f247a3dbd85485ec13174817ae9c2478fe541 (patch)
tree1d6f6fa28d70d51d1ce71264b07ec1afd768e9a6 /kernel
parentee0acf90d320c29916ba8c5c1b2e908d81f5057d (diff)
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[PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threads
setsid() does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c16
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a80824f..caceabf 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static inline void reparent_to_init(void)
void __set_special_pids(pid_t session, pid_t pgrp)
{
- struct task_struct *curr = current;
+ struct task_struct *curr = current->group_leader;
if (curr->signal->session != session) {
detach_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_SID);
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 43e5572..f497bf5 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1215,24 +1215,22 @@ asmlinkage long sys_getsid(pid_t pid)
asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void)
{
+ struct task_struct *group_leader = current->group_leader;
struct pid *pid;
int err = -EPERM;
- if (!thread_group_leader(current))
- return -EINVAL;
-
down(&tty_sem);
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
- pid = find_pid(PIDTYPE_PGID, current->pid);
+ pid = find_pid(PIDTYPE_PGID, group_leader->pid);
if (pid)
goto out;
- current->signal->leader = 1;
- __set_special_pids(current->pid, current->pid);
- current->signal->tty = NULL;
- current->signal->tty_old_pgrp = 0;
- err = process_group(current);
+ group_leader->signal->leader = 1;
+ __set_special_pids(group_leader->pid, group_leader->pid);
+ group_leader->signal->tty = NULL;
+ group_leader->signal->tty_old_pgrp = 0;
+ err = process_group(group_leader);
out:
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
up(&tty_sem);
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