[PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threads
setsid() does not work unless the calling process is a
thread_group_leader().
'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this
behaviour is a bug.
Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a80824f..caceabf 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
void __set_special_pids(pid_t session, pid_t pgrp)
{
- struct task_struct *curr = current;
+ struct task_struct *curr = current->group_leader;
if (curr->signal->session != session) {
detach_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_SID);