[Merge] lp:~stgraber/upstart/upstart-prctl into lp:upstart

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:45:24PM -0000, Stéphane Graber wrote:

> So I ended up doing it in a slightly different way, based on what systemd
> and gnome are doing.

> Basically, moving all the prctl stuff under an ifdef and having the
> subreaper value hardcoded in cases where it's not defined in prctl.h.

> This should cover systems that for some reason lack prctl.h, systems that
> have prctl.h but miss the subreaper definition and systems that have older
> kernels where the subreaper option doesn't exist.

> On systems that don't have prctl.h, the code will be entirely skipped and
> no event will be emitted.

> On systems that have prctl.h but where the subreaper isn't defined or
> isn't supported by the kernel, the event will be emitted.

IMHO if we're relying on subreaper support for proper process supervision of
user jobs, in the absence of subreaper support (at runtime or build time),
we should refuse to start a user session at all.

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