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authorKarel Zak2017-10-10 12:06:09 +0200
committerKarel Zak2017-10-10 12:06:58 +0200
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parentagetty: fix /etc/os-release parsing (diff)
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setsid: document fork(2) usage
Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/518 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/TODO5
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/setsid.15
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/TODO b/Documentation/TODO
index f81030c15..aab16afb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/TODO
+++ b/Documentation/TODO
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ cleanup lib/path.c:
to /sys snapshots (e.g. lsblk regression tests)
+setsid
+------
+ - add --fork to always call fork(2) before setsid(2)
+ https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/518
+
lscpu
-----
- read cpuid and uname information from file if --sysroot is specified, then
diff --git a/sys-utils/setsid.1 b/sys-utils/setsid.1
index 67c4208a7..61b13ce1d 100644
--- a/sys-utils/setsid.1
+++ b/sys-utils/setsid.1
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ setsid \- run a program in a new session
.RI [ arguments ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B setsid
-runs a program in a new session.
+runs a program in a new session. The command calls
+.BR fork (2)
+if already a process group leader. Otherwise, it executes a program in the
+current process.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-c , " \-\-ctty"