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From: dallinjdahl@gmail.com
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: s6 xinit replacement?
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 17:45:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3GMPPUYHIEJBK.3F20HQJFLEHMP@oak.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADQ2Nw_9xZyCkjnq5-teshkjGEAzYDUROCwKJPB06vnw2o+pDQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Guillermo <gdiazhartusch@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the Xorg process does not run as root, the tty specified in the vt
> argument must be its controlling terminal. It works if you run X from
> an interactive shell (perhaps indirectly through 'startx'), because it
> inherits the shell's controlling terminal. It doesn't when run by
> s6-supervise, because s6-supervise executes the 'run' file in a new
> session, so there is no controlling terminal.
> 
> You can see Xorg fail in the same way if you do:
> 
> $ setsid startx
> 
> Using util-linux' setsid(1), or:
> 
> $ execlineb -Pc 'background { s6-setsid startx } exit'
> 
> G.

Is the purpose of executing setsid() in s6-supervise to allow for the
services to continue beyond the termination of the supervision tree?
If that's the case, could there possibly be a flag to disable that,
with the understanding that something like nohup or even s6-setsid would
be necessary to replicate that behavior?  That would enable a non-root
Xorg to be managed by s6.

I don't know if that has any other implications, other than the fact that
it would add a flag to s6-svscan, and maybe to s6-supervise?  I don't
know if that cost is worth it, but I'm also not sure it warrants having
2 projects that duplicate the effort.  Xinit seems to try to do what s6
does, but poorly.

Thanks!
--Dallin

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-14 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-11  3:36 dallinjdahl
2022-05-14  3:47 ` Guillermo
2022-05-14 23:45   ` dallinjdahl [this message]
2022-05-15  1:52     ` Laurent Bercot
2022-05-15 15:02       ` Guillermo
2022-05-17  4:10         ` Rio Liu
2022-05-15  2:44   ` Samuel Holland
2022-05-22 15:07     ` Guillermo
2022-05-22 16:33       ` Samuel Holland
2022-05-23 10:05       ` yianiris
2022-05-23 23:40         ` Guillermo
2022-05-27  2:04         ` Steve Litt
2022-05-28  4:07     ` Dallin Dahl
2022-05-28 17:15     ` Dallin Dahl
2022-05-28 19:43       ` Samuel Holland

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