Re: Forcing a process to have a new controlling terminal

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Yes. Bravo. I graciously defer to this more modern method.

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <3523F75F.940D511@bdsinc.com>,
> Jens B. Jorgensen <jjorgens@bdsinc.com> wrote:
> >First open /dev/tty. Then do an TIOCNOTTY ioctl on the file. This will make it so your
> >process no longer has a controling terminal. Then simply open a terminal-type device.
>
> Argh, that's the old BSD way of doing things... this will work better:
>
> close(0);
> close(1);
> close(2);
> setsid();
>
> ..... open new tty here ...
>
> Mike.
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