[PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threads

setsid() does not work unless the calling process is a
thread_group_leader().

'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this
behaviour is a bug.

Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a80824f6108b..caceabf3f230 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static inline void reparent_to_init(void)
 
 void __set_special_pids(pid_t session, pid_t pgrp)
 {
-        struct task_struct *curr = current;
+        struct task_struct *curr = current->group_leader;
 
         if (curr->signal->session != session) {
                 detach_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_SID);