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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-10-20 09:35:40 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-10-20 09:35:40 -0400
commit8fdea26c94b22149040b8f29c8df7a92a50e0588 (patch)
tree9ca032131872ae87a374fc5ce9052f23687a2736 /src/core/show-status.c
parent332c0d48a9ba18e1601f072d4cb513751f8990f9 (diff)
parent47da760efddc1fae8dac460430efd0ae7090c6c4 (diff)
Merge pull request #4414 from poettering/consolesakcomment
three minor fixes: document /dev/console/SAK handling + another cgroups wording fix + document User= default
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diff --git a/src/core/show-status.c b/src/core/show-status.c
index 59ebdc7219..65f9cb888a 100644
--- a/src/core/show-status.c
+++ b/src/core/show-status.c
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ int status_vprintf(const char *status, bool ellipse, bool ephemeral, const char
if (vasprintf(&s, format, ap) < 0)
return log_oom();
+ /* Before you ask: yes, on purpose we open/close the console for each status line we write individually. This
+ * is a good strategy to avoid PID 1 getting killed by the kernel's SAK concept (it doesn't fix this entirely,
+ * but minimizes the time window the kernel might end up killing PID 1 due to SAK). It also makes things easier
+ * for us so that we don't have to recover from hangups and suchlike triggered on the console. */
+
fd = open_terminal("/dev/console", O_WRONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC);
if (fd < 0)
return fd;