From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Godmar Back <godmar@gmail.com>
Cc: Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: supporting terminal ownership assignment (tcsetpgrp()) in posix_spawn
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 13:42:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11145e53-3fbc-0f04-33f8-b2d9981f0ea8@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB4+JYLhNCwTKU0M29i04LuDzXPPHhgcH0MQDwnAdmwBH_nuMw@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/06/2021 11:37, Godmar Back wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 9:50 AM Adhemerval Zanella <
> adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> So one options might be to add something as the one I suggested before,
>> but as generic extension instead of a file extension (which does not make
>> sense in fact):
>>
>> int posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (posix_spawnattr_t *__attr, int fd,
>> pid_t pgrp);
>>
>> Similar to tcgetpgrp, it make the created process group with process
>> group
>> instructed by the PGRP argument the foreground process group on the
>> terminal
>> associated to FD. If PGRP is 0, the current group obtained with
>> getpgrp()
>> will be used, otherwise PGRP will be used.
>>
>> This is done after just after setting the process group ID
>> (POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP) and right before setting the effective user and
>> group id (POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS).
>>
>> So if the called want to create a new session id, it can issue:
>>
>> posix_spawnattr_t attr;
>> posix_spawnattr_setflags (&attr, POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID);
>> posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (&attr, fd, 0);
>>
>> And the created process will issue the following in the order:
>>
>> setsid ();
>> tcsetpgrp (fd, getpgid (0));
>>
>>
> After setsid(), the caller is a new session leader and a new process group
> leader, but it doesn't have a controlling terminal.
> (setsid(2) says: "The calling process will be the only process in the new
> process group and in the new session. Initially, the new session has no
> controlling terminal.")
>
> The man page of tcsetpgrp however states that the fd passed: "must be the
> controlling terminal of the calling process."
> So if you implemented it like that in a library, it should fail based on
> the description in the man pages.
>
> I'm not sure if POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID needs to be able to be combined with
> setting the terminal's foreground process group. Those are different use
> cases. In the case of setsid, the spawned process must be prepared to
> become a new session leader (open a new controlling terminal, etc.) so it
> would not generally assume to already be a member of the terminal's fg
> process group (since it doesn't have a controlling terminal yet).
Indeed this won't accomplish anything in fact, one will need to issue
a ioctl with TIOCSCTTY to recover the terminal (as login_tty does). I
agree with you that the usual usercase for POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID is to
have the created process to setup itself the required terminal.
There is hacks to reparent a running program to a new terminal by using
ptrace to inject syscalls on the target process, but I think it is
really out of scope from the libc.
>
>
>>
>> If the caller already has group it want to use, it can issue instead:
>>
>> posix_spawnattr_t attr;
>> posix_spawnattr_setpgroup (&attr, groupid);
>> posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (&attr, fd, groupid);
>>
>> Which in turn will make the created process to issue:
>>
>> setpgid (0, groupid);
>> tcsetpgrp (fd, groupid);
>>
>
> For this use case, as long as it supports groupid == 0, this should work as
> it is what shells currently do.
So the my question is whether providing the groupid as an argument is
really required (I would say yes so it can be combined with
posix_spawnattr_setpgroup).
Another question is when to issue the tcsetpgrp related to
POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID. I would say tcsetpgrp should be issued *before*
setsid, so tcsetpgrp can return early if it fails. Otherwise tcsetpgrp
will always fail if POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID is set (it would be a caller
error, but I think from API viewpoint it should be better if we could
minimize the possible error scenarios).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 13:58 Godmar Back
2021-06-07 21:04 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-07 21:23 ` Godmar Back
2021-06-07 21:36 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-07 23:57 ` Godmar Back
2021-06-08 13:50 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-08 14:37 ` Godmar Back
2021-06-08 16:42 ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2021-06-08 22:11 ` Godmar Back
2021-06-09 6:41 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-09 12:00 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-09 13:12 ` Godmar Back
2021-06-11 13:45 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-11 23:58 ` Godmar Back
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