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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: TIOCSCTTY
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* Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> [010702 10:51] wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Could someone please explain why the following code snippet
> does not work anymore with the "/dev/console" argument?
> 
> # ./tiocsctty /dev/console
> tiocsctty: ioctl(/dev/console, TIOCSCTTY): Operation not permitted

I think LINT has an option to allow this.  The reason, I think, is
that you don't want non-root users to be able to grab the console
output as it may allow them to obscure evil behavior. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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