Instead of first becoming a controlling process of the payload pty
as side effect of opening it (without O_NOCTTY), and then possibly
dropping it again, let's do it cleanly an reverse the logic: let's open
the pty without becoming its controller first. Only after everything
went the way we wanted it to go become the controller explicitly.
This has the benefit that the PID 1 stub process we run (as effect of
--as-pid2) doesn't have to lose the tty explicitly, but can just
continue running with things. And we explicitly make the tty controlling
right before invoking actual payload.
In order to make sure everything works as expected validate that the
stub PID 1 in the container really has no conrolling tty by issuing the
TIOCNOTTY tty and expecting ENOTTY, and log about it.
This shouldn't change behaviour much, it just makes thins a bit cleaner,
in particular as we'll not trigger SIGHUP on ourselves (since we are
controller and session leader) due to TIOCNOTTY which we then have to
explicitly ignore.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This adds a new safe_fork() wrapper around fork() and makes use of it
everywhere. The new wrapper does a couple of things we previously did
manually and separately in a safer, more correct and automatic way:
1. Optionally resets signal handlers/mask in the child
2. Sets a name on all processes we fork off right after forking off (and
the patch assigns useful names for all processes we fork off now,
following a systematic naming scheme: always enclosed in () – in order
to indicate that these are not proper, exec()ed processes, but only
forked off children, and if the process is long-running with only our
own code, without execve()'ing something else, it gets am "sd-" prefix.)
3. Optionally closes all file descriptors in the child
4. Optionally sets a PR_SET_DEATHSIG to SIGTERM in the child, in a safe
way so that the parent dying before this happens being handled
safely.
5. Optionally reopens the logs
6. Optionally connects stdin/stdout/stderr to /dev/null
7. Debug logs about the forked off processes.
This code already existed in some form, however commented. Remove the
comments, as this was most likely simply a forgotten commenting for
debugging purposes.
This also extends the logic a bit, by sending SIGHUP right after the
SIGTERM, so that shells will also terminate, when PID 1 gets a
SIGRTMIN+3.
Fixes: #5711
The container detection code in virt.c we ship checks for /proc/1/environ,
looking for "container=" in it. Let's make sure our "-a" init stub exposes that
correctly.
Without this "systemd-detect-virt" run in a "-a" container won't detect that it
is being run in a container.
This adds a new switch --as-pid2, which allows running commands as PID 2, while a stub init process is run as PID 1.
This is useful in order to run arbitrary commands in a container, as PID1's semantics are different from all other
processes regarding reaping of unknown children or signal handling.
Lennart Poettering