[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH common v2] PVE::RESTEnvironment::fork_worker: put child in foreground

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 6/29/18 11:21 AM, Stoiko Ivanov wrote:
> * Fix #1819
> * Use setpgid+tcsetpgrp instead of setsid if $sync (invocation via cli), thus
>   keeping /dev/tty - ssh-copy-id/ssh need it to read the password, and putting
>   the child in the forground
> * Ignore SIGTTOU in child process (otherwise it gets stopped upon tcsetpgrp)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
> ---
> changes from v1:
> * check whether STDIN is actually a terminal (otherwise running commands using
>   fork_worker and redirecting input (e.g. ansible) failed with
>   Inappropriate ioctl for device
> * whitespace fixup
> * the comment that the combination of having $sync 1 in few cases was wrong
>   (all cli invocations involving fork_worker are affected)
> 
> src/PVE/RESTEnvironment.pm | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PVE/RESTEnvironment.pm b/src/PVE/RESTEnvironment.pm
> index 32ffdd1..3155aac 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/RESTEnvironment.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/RESTEnvironment.pm
> @@ -494,10 +494,16 @@ sub fork_worker {
>  	$SIG{INT} = $SIG{QUIT} = $SIG{TERM} = sub { die "received interrupt\n"; };
>  
>  	$SIG{CHLD} = $SIG{PIPE} = 'DEFAULT';
> +	$SIG{TTOU} = 'IGNORE';
>  
>  	# set sess/process group - we want to be able to kill the
>  	# whole process group
> -	POSIX::setsid();
> +	if ($sync && -t STDIN) {
> +	    POSIX::setpgid(0,0) or die "failed to setpgid: $!\n";;
> +	    POSIX::tcsetpgrp(fileno(STDIN), $$) or die "failed to tcsetpgrp: $!\n";
> +	} else {
> +	    POSIX::setsid();
> +	}
>  
>  	POSIX::close ($psync[0]);
>  	POSIX::close ($ctrlfd[0]) if $sync;
> 

applied, with improved commit message and a commit adding/improving the
surrounding comments. Much thanks for spotting and fixing this!