let's get rid of ioctl()
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Tue Oct 11 12:27:48 AEST 1988
Wouldn't it be nice if ioctl() calls were effective only within the
process which executed them, and in its children (for initialization),
but NOT in its parent?
I.e. the ioctl() structures are local to a process (group) -> ...fcntl()!
By this scheme your terminal wouldn't hang anymore if some program like vi(1)
exited weirdly. Of course stty(1) would be replaced by a built-in.
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