When we launch clients they currently stay in the same session as
weston, and share its controlling terminal. This means hitting ctrl-c
in weston's controlling terminal will send SIGINT to the clients as
well. It also means SIGHUP will be propagated to our launched clients
if weston's controlling terminal is closed.
While generally not harmful, this behaviour is not beneficial, and
is present by default and not by design.
Problems arise when launching weston in a debugger, as a ctrl-c sent to
the debugger will be propagated not only to the debugger, but all the child
processes sharing weston's session. This results in weston-desktop-shell
being killed by the ctrl-c that was intended to stop weston for debugging.
If weston-desktop-shell is killed within 30 second of startup, it will
result weston performing a clean shutdown. This clean shutdown can
make debugging a little too surprising.
Ostensibly, clients launched via weston_client_launch will be wayland
clients that terminate cleanly on their own if weston is killed, so
there should be no need for them to remain in weston's session to
catch ctrl-c from its controlling terminal. Nor should they need a
controlling terminal for their general operation.
Use setsid() to move them to their own session, devoid of controlling
terminal, to make using a debugger a little less confusing in some
cases.
Signed-off-by: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com>
Derek Foreman
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