[PATCH] device: avoid signals sent to the mbim-proxy process

[Aleksander Morgado]

If e.g. mbim-proxy is started by ModemManager and we send a Ctrl+C to
it, the signal would be propagated to the mbim-proxy process and we
would kill it right away, while leaving ModemManager still around
wondering why the socket to the proxy got a HUP.

Avoid this, by making sure the mbim-proxy gets its own process group.
---

Hey,

Eric, adding you in CC because I got this issue while testing your ModemManager patch to act on proxy crashes. I was running MM in --debug mode and sent a Ctrl-C to stop it, and that actually ended up killing the proxy underneath and your reprobe logic hitting in... :)

What do you guys think? I believe this is reasonable, the proxy should really be a complete independent spawn not tied to the process which originated it.

The same change would be applicable to qmi-proxy.

---
 src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c b/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c
index 68544af..4b7d431 100644
--- a/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c
+++ b/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c
@@ -1077,6 +1077,13 @@ wait_for_proxy_cb (GTask *task)
 }

 static void
+spawn_child_setup (void)
+{
+    if (setpgid (0, 0) < 0)
+        g_warning ("couldn't setup proxy specific process group");
+}
+
+static void
 create_iochannel_with_socket (GTask *task)
 {
     MbimDevice *self;
@@ -1138,7 +1145,7 @@ create_iochannel_with_socket (GTask *task)
                             argc,
                             NULL, /* envp */
                             G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL | G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL,
-                            NULL, /* child_setup */
+                            (GSpawnChildSetupFunc) spawn_child_setup,
                             NULL, /* child_setup_user_data */
                             NULL,
                             &error)) {
--
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