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- From: gerry@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Gerry Baumgartner)
-
- I have a few questions on controlling terminals in POSIX. I don't know
- whether the supplements address these questions.
-
- 1) 7.1.1.3 "The Controlling Terminal" says that a process relinquishes its
- controlling terminal when it creates a new session with setsid(), or when all
- file descriptors associated with the controlling terminal have been closed.
- Also, if a process which is not a session leader opens a terminal file, that
- terminal shall not become the controlling terminal of the calling process.
-
- Currently in the System V implemention, after a process has closed all it's
- file descriptors to the controlling terminal, he CAN open /dev/tty and be
- "reconnected" to it, and thus have a controlling terminal again. But /dev/tty
- is a terminal file isn't it? Does that mean that it should not be allowed to
- be opened after a process has "relinquished" it? I understand that if the
- controlling terminal was say, /dev/tty15, and a non-session-leader relinquished
- it and the tried to open /dev/tty23, the new tty should not become the
- controlling terminal for the process. But /dev/tty seems to be a special
- case that the standard doesn't address.
-
- And it seems to me the only time that "relinquishing" a controlling terminal
- has any real consequences is when the session leader does it. At that point,
- in the words of the standard, processes of the session MAY be denied access to
- what once was their controlling terminal.
-
- 2) 7.1.1.9 "Special Characters", for INTR and QUIT says that the signal is
- sent to all processes in the foreground process group for which the terminal is
- the controlling terminal.
-
- This to me is somewhat ambiguous. Do all the processes in the foreground
- process group get the signal or just those processes that have not relinquished
- their controlling terminal by closing all their file descriptors to it?
-
-
- Any comments regarding these questions would be appreciated.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 7
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