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Date:      Mon, 25 May 1998 13:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, archie@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com
Subject:   Re: **HEADS UP** user-ppp has changed ! 
Message-ID:  <199805251727.NAA21015@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805232253.XAA26943@awfulhak.org>
References:  <199805231754.DAA02639@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199805232253.XAA26943@awfulhak.org>

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<<On Sat, 23 May 1998 23:53:13 +0100, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> said:

> What'd be really nice is if there was some way of donating PGRP 
> rights to the other side of a local socket - I'm not allowed to 
> tcsetpgrp() 'cos the other ppp isn't part of my session.  This 
> would be similar to SCM_RIGHTS & SCM_CREDS, but would affect the 
> tty in that the tty would zero its session pointer and change it's 
> PGRP pointer to that of the receiver.  It's probably trickier than 
> that though :-/

Actually, I think that the unp_{ex,in}ternalize() functions should
probably handle this, although describing what the right behavior
actually would be is a bit tricky.

-GAWollman

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