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User space applications watch for timestamp changes on character device files in order to determine idle time of a given terminal session. For example, "w" program uses this information to populate the IDLE column of its output [1]. Similarly, systemd-logind has optional feature where it uses atime of the tty character device to determine if there was activity on the terminal associated with the logind's session object. If there was no activity for a configured period of time then logind will terminate such session [2]. Now, usually (e.g. bash running on the terminal) the use of the terminal will update timestamps (atime and mtime) on the corresponding terminal character device. However, if access to the terminal, e.g. /dev/pts/0, is performed through magic character device /dev/tty then such access obviously changes the state of the terminal, however timestamps on the device that correspond to the terminal (/dev/pts/0) are not updated. This patch makes sure that we update timestamps on *all* character devices that correspond to the given tty, because outside observers (w, systemd-logind) are maybe checking these timestamps. Obviously, they can not check timestamps on /dev/tty as that has per-process meaning. [1] https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/blob/v4.0.0/w.c#L286 [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v252/NEWS#L477 Signed-off-by: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20230613172107.78138-1-msekleta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.