Re: [gdm-list] Killing the killable

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Cesare:

> I've been discussing this subject with Brian Cameron and he suggested I
> seek your wisdom.
>
> During gdm shutdown we would like to (possibly gracefully) kill as many
> processes associated to the Gnome session as possible (for the reasons
> and some background info you can have a look at these bug reports
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152907 and
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419301 ).
>
> Unfortunately, a quick look at the lists of all spawned processes during
> a typical session make us think that the task is next to impossible as
> there seems to be a somewhat illogical association of processes and
> PGRPs, PIDs and PPIDs (see
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152907#c5 for an example).
>
> We can't simply kill all processes associated with a user since the
> user may be logged into multiple displays, or might have telnetted/rlogged into
> the system as well as having a session running.
>
> Is this behaviour expected, and if so would there be any other way to tell
> what processes on a system are associated with a given session?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help and support,

I think that this query might be more appropriate to ask on
gnome-hackers gnome org or gnome-desktop-devel gnome org mail lists, since
the offending processes are related to GNOME and not really GDM itself.

Brian