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-rw-r--r--src/core/show-status.c5
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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;