From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 7 17:15:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from firee.ia.cp (redion.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC3614BF7 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gene@nttmcl.com) Received: from localhost (gene@localhost) by firee.ia.cp (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA93600 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gene@nttmcl.com) X-Authentication-Warning: firee.ia.cp: gene owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:14:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene M. Kim" X-Sender: gene@firee.ia.cp To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Session leader releasing the ctty Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like to hear any opinions on this. I want this shell (which automatically becomes a session leader) to release its ctty but remain unterminated (the ctty must be taken by its child). However, there seems to be no easy way to do this; termios(4) says one must call setsid() to release its ctty, but setsid(2) says the call will fail if the caller is already a session leader. Would there be any other way for a session leader to release its ctty without terminating itself? TIA. Cheers, Eugene Kim PS. I'm now using a workaround that the shell will forward the SIGHUP that it received because it's a session leader, but this isn't a clean way. :-p -- Eugene M. Kim NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories Software Developer 250 Cambridge Avenue, Suite 205 +1 650 833 3630 (Voice) Palo Alto, CA 94040, USA +1 650 833 3633 (Fax) mailto:gene@nttmcl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message