Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:02:35 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: General note on rc scripts and daemonizing Message-ID: <4C494C9B.1020109@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100717105658.GV1742@hoeg.nl> References: <20100717105658.GV1742@hoeg.nl>
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On 17/07/2010 12:56, Ed Schouten wrote:
> ...
>
> This has various implications. The most important one I can think of, is
> that the daemon can still do open("/dev/tty", ...) if it wants and spam
> your TTY, even if the daemon is running as user `nobody'. This also
> means that if you run the rc script from within a pseudo-terminal, it
> can never actually destroy the pseudo-terminal for you, because maybe
> the daemon is interested in using it.
What is not clear to me, in which way is that a problem?
Regards
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