[Pkg-shadow-devel] document pam-based su(1) behavior of SIGTERM/SIGKILL

[Nicolas François]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 06:48:04AM -0400, vapier at gentoo.org wrote:
> user report:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/282094
> 
> the current pam run_shell() code doesnt seem to check if the child is still 
> alive after the SIGTERM and before the SIGKILL, but maybe i missed something 
> weird with the signal handler.

I will commit this patch to
 * document the su exit values
   I'm not sure I would recommend to rely on the su exit values, so maybe
   documenting them was not a really good idea.
 * wait for the child to terminate, and kill it only if it did not
   terminate by itself.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral
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