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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.2R (src 2.2 211): <ctrl><alt><del> == dialing
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>>The slattach daemon has a controlling tty...
>
>Only until it calls daemon() immediately after cracking its args.

No.  It acquires a controlling tty a few lines after it becomes a
daemon, at least in the redial case (I think the !redial case is
still broken - it does a null redial instead of aborting like the
documentation for the -l option says it does).

Bruce