The PAM helper thread needs to capture the death signal from the
parent, but is prohibited from doing so since when the child dies
as normal user, the kernel won't allow it to send a TERM to the
PAM helper thread which is running as root.
This causes the PAM threads to never exit, accumulating after
user sessions exit.
There is however really no need to keep the PAM threads running as
root, so, we can just setresuid() to the same user as defined in the
unit file for the parent thread (User=). This makes the TERM signal
arrive as normal. In case setresuid() fails, we ignore the error, so
we at least fall back to the current behaviour.
Type=idle is much like Type=simple, however between the fork() and the
exec() in the child we wait until PID 1 informs us that no jobs are
left.
This is mostly a cosmetic fix to make gettys appear only after all boot
output is finished and complete.
Note that this does not impact the normal job logic as we do not delay
the completion of any jobs. We just delay the invocation of the actual
binary, and only for services that otherwise would be of Type=simple.
Previously, we were brutally and onconditionally killing all processes
in a service's cgroup before starting the service anew, in order to
ensure that StartPre lines cannot be misused to spawn long-running
processes.
On logind-less systems this has the effect that restarting sshd
necessarily calls all active ssh sessions, which is usually not
desirable.
With this patch control processes for a service are placed in a
sub-cgroup called "control/". When starting a service anew we simply
kill this cgroup, but not the main cgroup, in order to avoid killing any
long-running non-control processes from previous runs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805942
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.
Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.
The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.
The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
Lennart Poettering