Disassocation from controlling tty

bossert at ssc-bee.UUCP bossert at ssc-bee.UUCP
Sat Mar 29 03:02:28 AEST 1986


Where the desired goal is disassociation of a process from its
controlling tty, what are the differences between

		setpgrp() 
		
		and 
		
		ioctl(fd, TIOCSPGRP, &npgrp)?

Which is preferable?  Why?

	John Bossert
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	John Bossert
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