do check for utmp checking at the right time

We were doing the check for whether we need to watch utmp from a
thread cloned from that which will actually do the utmp watching.
As a result, the utmp file was always being watched, even if it
didn't need to be.

Move the check to the parent thread.

Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/948623

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Serge Hallyn 2012-03-19 00:31:40 +01:00 committed by Daniel Lezcano
parent f9d0d2cbbf
commit 69182a318c

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@ -503,16 +503,12 @@ static int do_start(void *data)
if (lxc_sync_barrier_parent(handler, LXC_SYNC_CONFIGURE))
return -1;
if (must_drop_cap_sys_boot()) {
if (handler->conf->need_utmp_watch) {
if (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, CAP_SYS_BOOT, 0, 0, 0)) {
SYSERROR("failed to remove CAP_SYS_BOOT capability");
return -1;
}
handler->conf->need_utmp_watch = 1;
DEBUG("Dropped cap_sys_boot\n");
} else {
DEBUG("Not dropping cap_sys_boot or watching utmp\n");
handler->conf->need_utmp_watch = 0;
}
/* Setup the container, ip, names, utsname, ... */
@ -635,6 +631,14 @@ int __lxc_start(const char *name, struct lxc_conf *conf,
handler->ops = ops;
handler->data = data;
if (must_drop_cap_sys_boot()) {
handler->conf->need_utmp_watch = 1;
DEBUG("Dropping cap_sys_boot and watching utmp\n");
} else {
DEBUG("Not dropping cap_sys_boot or watching utmp\n");
handler->conf->need_utmp_watch = 0;
}
err = lxc_spawn(handler);
if (err) {
ERROR("failed to spawn '%s'", name);