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- Submitted-by: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
-
- [ I don't quite understand why the submittor wants to split this from the
- thread of Re: File system name space, but let's give it a try and see what
- happens, eh? -mod ]
-
- In article <14103@cs.utexas.edu> arnold@audiofax.com writes:
- >In general, unless someone went to the trouble, fd 3 will be attached to the
- >terminal, so opening /dev/tty is pretty safe. Nothing's foolproof; [...]
- >You're no worse off than before when /dev/tty was built into the kernel.
-
- If you have a program that closes only fd 3, this implementation will behave
- differently from the old /dev/tty device implementation, won't it? You will
- not be able to reach the controlling terminal by a guaranteed route, in spite
- of the fact that it is still available on other fd-s. Or is the controlling
- terminal concept implemented in such a way that closing fd 3 is the same as
- disassociating from the controlling terminal (so you won't be bother with
- terminal interrupts and such) ?
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