Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 03:54:09 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: **HEADS UP** user-ppp has changed ! Message-ID: <199805231754.DAA02639@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Access to a controlling terminal is revoked when its controlling process >> goes away. See kern_exit.c. > >Is there any way of avoiding this ? Perhaps relinquishing terminal >control up front, *then* passing the descriptor ? Releasing a controlling terminal earlier just gives a dead descriptor earlier. Session leaders can switch the controlling tty (hopefully only when switching is secure). >The only other alternative is to keep a `/bin/cat' running - in which >case I may as well do the `two /bin/cat' approach.... that way they >get a SIGPIPE when something goes wrong and everything dies nicely. Why would cat be the controlling process? I'm not sure what the controlling process is here. If it's a login shell, then don't kill it. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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