Merge pull request #828 from rolandwalker/process-group-leader

Make tig the process group leader and automatically clean child processes

Author: jonas

include/tig/display.h

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern unsigned int current_view;
 #define view_is_displayed(view) \
 	(view == display[0] || view == display[1])
 
+void init_tty(void);
 void init_display(void);
 void resize_display(void);
 void redraw_display(bool clear);

src/display.c

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ set_terminal_modes(void)
 	leaveok(stdscr, false);
 }
 
-static void
+void
 init_tty(void)
 {
 	/* open */
@@ -598,6 +598,12 @@ init_tty(void)
 	if (!opt_tty.attr)
 		die("Failed allocation for tty attributes");
 	tcgetattr(opt_tty.fd, opt_tty.attr);
+
+	/* process-group leader */
+	signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);
+	setpgid(getpid(), getpid());
+	tcsetpgrp(opt_tty.fd, getpid());
+	signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL);
 }
 
 void
@@ -607,7 +613,8 @@ init_display(void)
 	const char *term;
 	int x, y;
 
-	init_tty();
+	if (!opt_tty.file)
+		die("Can't initialize display without tty");
 
 	die_callback = done_display;
 	if (atexit(done_display))

src/tig.c

@@ -738,6 +738,14 @@ die_if_failed(enum status_code code, const char *msg)
 		die("%s: %s", msg, get_status_message(code));
 }
 
+void
+hangup_children(void)
+{
+	if (signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR)
+		return;
+	killpg(getpid(), SIGHUP);
+}
+
 static inline enum status_code
 handle_git_prefix(void)
 {
@@ -772,6 +780,10 @@ main(int argc, const char *argv[])
 	enum request request = parse_options(argc, argv, pager_mode);
 	struct view *view;
 
+	init_tty();
+
+	atexit(hangup_children);
+
 	if (signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR)
 		die("Failed to setup signal handler");
 

test/README.adoc

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ test scripts as long as `PATH` is set to include the directories `src/`
 and `test/tools`. The latter directory is where the test helper
 libraries are located, the most important of which is `libtest.sh`.
 
+The test suite requires `stty -tostop` to be set in the running terminal,
+which is typically the default.
+
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