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Adhemerval Zanella Netto 0d6f9f6265 posix: Add pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawnp (BZ 30349)
Returning a pidfd allows a process to keep a race-free handle for a
child process, otherwise, the caller will need to either use pidfd_open
(which still might be subject to TOCTOU) or keep the old racy interface
base on pid_t.

To correct use pifd_spawn, the kernel must support not only returning
the pidfd with clone/clone3 but also waitid (P_PIDFD) (added on Linux
5.4).  If kernel does not support the waitid, pidfd return ENOSYS.
It avoids the need to racy workarounds, such as reading the procfs
fdinfo to get the pid to use along with other wait interfaces.

These interfaces are similar to the posix_spawn and posix_spawnp, with
the only difference being it returns a process file descriptor (int)
instead of a process ID (pid_t).  Their prototypes are:

  int pidfd_spawn (int *restrict pidfd,
                   const char *restrict file,
                   const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *restrict facts,
                   const posix_spawnattr_t *restrict attrp,
                   char *const argv[restrict],
                   char *const envp[restrict])

  int pidfd_spawnp (int *restrict pidfd,
                    const char *restrict path,
                    const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *restrict facts,
                    const posix_spawnattr_t *restrict attrp,
                    char *const argv[restrict_arr],
                    char *const envp[restrict_arr]);

A new symbol is used instead of a posix_spawn extension to avoid
possible issues with language bindings that might track the return
argument lifetime.  Although on Linux pid_t and int are interchangeable,
POSIX only states that pid_t should be a signed integer.

Both symbols reuse the posix_spawn posix_spawn_file_actions_t and
posix_spawnattr_t, to void rehash posix_spawn API or add a new one. It
also means that both interfaces support the same attribute and file
actions, and a new flag or file action on posix_spawn is also added
automatically for pidfd_spawn.

Also, using posix_spawn plumbing allows the reusing of most of the
current testing with some changes:

  - waitid is used instead of waitpid since it is a more generic
    interface.

  - tst-posix_spawn-setsid.c is adapted to take into consideration that
    the caller can check for session id directly.  The test now spawns
itself and writes the session id as a file instead.

  - tst-spawn3.c need to know where pidfd_spawn is used so it keeps an
    extra file description unused.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu on Linux 4.15 (no CLONE_PIDFD or waitid
support), Linux 5.4 (full support), and Linux 6.2.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2023-09-05 13:08:59 -03:00
argp argp-parse: Get rid of alloca 2023-08-28 16:49:27 +00:00
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benchtests benchtests: fix warn unused result 2023-06-22 00:21:19 -04:00
bits linux: Add posix_spawnattr_{get, set}cgroup_np (BZ 26371) 2023-09-05 13:08:48 -03:00
catgets gencat: Get rid of alloca. 2023-08-28 16:42:53 +00:00
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conform wchar: Define va_list for POSIX (BZ #30035) 2023-05-25 16:43:29 -03:00
crypt Fix all the remaining misspellings -- BZ 25337 2023-06-02 01:39:48 +00:00
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elf elf: Fix slow tls access after dlopen [BZ #19924] 2023-09-01 08:21:37 +01:00
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hesiod Fix all the remaining misspellings -- BZ 25337 2023-06-02 01:39:48 +00:00
htl __call_tls_dtors: Use call_function_static_weak 2023-09-04 20:03:37 +02:00
hurd hurd: Avoid including thread_state.h in installed header 2023-09-05 11:58:26 +02:00
iconv iconv: restore verbosity with unrecognized encoding names (bug 30694) 2023-08-02 13:30:04 +02:00
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include posix: Add pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawnp (BZ 30349) 2023-09-05 13:08:59 -03:00
inet nscd: Do not rebuild getaddrinfo (bug 30709) 2023-08-11 10:10:16 +02:00
intl intl: Treat C.UTF-8 locale like C locale (BZ# 16621) 2023-09-04 15:31:36 +02:00
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login unistd: Avoid PLT entries with _FORTIFY_SOURCE 2023-07-05 16:59:48 +02:00
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malloc malloc: Remove bin scanning from memalign (bug 30723) 2023-08-15 08:07:36 +02:00
manual posix: Add pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawnp (BZ 30349) 2023-09-05 13:08:59 -03:00
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nscd nscd: Skip unusable entries in first pass in prune_cache (bug 30800) 2023-08-29 08:28:38 +02:00
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