On Sat, 09.07.16 17:09, Ben Rosser (rosser.bjr@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I think this needs to be rethought. The options right now are, modify > > an as yet unknown quantity of background programs so they aren't > > killed on user logout; vs logout/restart/shutdown likely hanging for > > 90 seconds. It seems the work around would be to modify screen and > > tmux, and then run all such background tasks in either screen or tmux. > > But, that's kinda, wow... bit of a hammer. > > > A thought occurred to me: would it be possible to instead implement a > whitelist of *binaries* that are allowed to linger, rather than going > around patching everything? So for example rather than having to modify the > codebase of screen, we have a (sysadmin-modifiable) whitelist that says > /usr/bin/screen is allowed to linger? Perhaps this would be something > shipped by the screen package, so /usr/bin/screen is only whitelisted if > the package providing it installed. That's hardly useful, as "screen" alone is useless as it's just a frontend to other programs (such as a shell that is run inside the "screen" instance), and if we kill those, then "screen" doesn't need to be around either... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
