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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 - David Goulet <david.goulet@polymtl.ca>
+ * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
+ * 2013 - Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 only,
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+#include <signal.h>
+#include "lttng-sessiond.h"
+
+/* Notify parents that we are ready for cmd and health check */
+void sessiond_signal_parents(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Notify parent pid that we are ready to accept command
+ * for client side. This ppid is the one from the
+ * external process that spawned us.
+ */
+ if (config.sig_parent) {
+ kill(ppid, SIGUSR1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Notify the parent of the fork() process that we are
+ * ready.
+ */
+ if (config.daemonize || config.background) {
+ kill(child_ppid, SIGUSR1);
+ }
+}