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Justin M. Keyes 8d90171f8b jobs: child proc must have a separate process-group
UV_PROCESS_DETACHED compels libuv:uv__process_child_init() to call
setsid() in the child just after fork().  That ensures the process and
its descendants are grouped in a separate session (and process group).

The following jobstart() call correctly groups `sh` and `sleep` in a new
session (and process-group), where `sh` is the "session leader" (and
process-group leader):

    :call jobstart(['sh','-c','sleep 60'])

     SESN  PGRP   PID  PPID  Command
    30383 30383 30383  3620  │  ├─ -bash
    30383 31432 31432 30383  │  │  └─ nvim -u NORC
    30383 31432 31433 30383  │  │     ├─ nvim -u NORC
     8105  8105  8105 31432  │  │     └─ sh -c sleep 60
     8105  8105  8106  8105  │  │        └─ sleep 60

closes #6530
ref: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1046933
ref: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/404065

Helped-by: Marco Hinz <mh.codebro+github@gmail.com>

Discussion
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On my linux box before this patch, the termclose_spec.lua:'kills job
trapping SIGTERM' test indirectly causes cmake/busted to wait for 60s.
That's because the test spawns a `sleep 60` descendant process which
hangs around even after nvim exits: nvim killed the parent PID, but not
PGID (process-group), so the grandchild "reparented" to init (PID 1).

Session contains processes (and process-groups) which are logically part
of the same "login session". Process-group is a set of
logically/informally-related processes within a session; for example,
shells assign a process group to each "job". Session IDs and PGIDs both
have type pid_t (like PIDs).

These OS-level mechanisms are, as usual, legacy accidents whose purpose
is upheld by convention and folklore.  We can use session-level grouping
(setsid), or we could use process-group-level grouping (setpgid).

Vim uses setsid() if available, otherwise setpgid(0,0).

Windows
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UV_PROCESS_DETACHED on win32 sets CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP flag.
But uv_kill() does not kill the process-group:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3617

Ideas:
- Set UV_PROCESS_DETACHED (CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP), then call
  GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent(CTRL_BREAK_EVENT, pid)
   - Maybe won't work because MSDN says "Only processes that share the
     same console as the calling process receive the signal."
     https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/generateconsolectrlevent
     But CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP creates a new console ...
     ref https://stackoverflow.com/q/1453520
- Group processes within a "job". libuv does that *globally* for
  non-detached processes: uv__init_global_job_handle.
- Iterate through CreateToolhelp32Snapshot().
   - https://stackoverflow.com/q/1173342
   - Vim does this, see terminate_all()
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Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:

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Install from source

make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install

To install to a non-default location, specify CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:

make CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/"
make install

See the wiki for details.

Install from package

Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found at the Releases page.

Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Gentoo, and more!

Project layout

├─ ci/              build automation
├─ cmake/           build scripts
├─ runtime/         user plugins/docs
├─ src/             application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│  ├─ api/          API subsystem
│  ├─ eval/         VimL subsystem
│  ├─ event/        event-loop subsystem
│  ├─ generators/   code generation (pre-compilation)
│  ├─ lib/          generic data structures
│  ├─ lua/          lua subsystem
│  ├─ msgpack_rpc/  RPC subsystem
│  ├─ os/           low-level platform code
│  └─ tui/          built-in UI
├─ third-party/     cmake subproject to build dependencies
└─ test/            tests (see test/README.md)
  • To disable third-party/ specify USE_BUNDLED_DEPS=NO or USE_BUNDLED=NO (CMake option).

Features

See :help nvim-features for the full list!

License

Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, except for parts that were contributed under the Vim license.

  • Contributions committed before b17d96 remain under the Vim license.

  • Contributions committed after b17d96 are licensed under Apache 2.0 unless those contributions were copied from Vim (identified in the commit logs by the vim-patch token).

See LICENSE for details.

Vim is Charityware.  You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda.  Please see the
kcc section of the vim docs or visit the ICCF web site, available at these URLs:

        http://iccf-holland.org/
        http://www.vim.org/iccf/
        http://www.iccf.nl/

You can also sponsor the development of Vim.  Vim sponsors can vote for
features.  The money goes to Uganda anyway.