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Michal Sekletar 360c11e225 tty: tty_io: update timestamps on all device nodes
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>
2023-06-15 13:45:42 +02:00
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