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[shepherd] guix-home managed shepherd shares process group with shell

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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>,
 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
Subject: [shepherd] guix-home managed shepherd shares process group with shell
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:42:55 +0100

Cc'ing Tomas and Ludo, as they actually diagnosed the issue [0].

The user shepherd, as configured using guix home, runs under the same
process group as the shell that initially triggered guix home's
"$HOME/.guix-home/on-first-login" script.

This leads to the user shepherd receiving signals that are sent to the
shell, such as a SIGINT/^C, and subsequently stopping entirely.

If I understand the fine folks on IRC correctly, the daemonize action of
the root-service in shepherd is missing a call to (setsid). I am
uncertain whether this setsid call should be made conditional or not.

Kind regards,
Jelle Licht

[0]: https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2024-11-25.log#172506

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