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Re: Forcing a process to have a new controlling terminal



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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 Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
    miquels@cistron.nl  |   eventually eliminating it.


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