What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

Dave Decot decot at hpisod2.HP.COM
Fri May 26 07:30:37 AEST 1989


> > It would be nice to have a means of reassigning the controlling
> > terminal of a process, eg attach().
> 
> There's already an ioctl that'll do this. I like to refer to it as the
> "make me root" ioctl call.

No, this ioctl() reassigns the associatd process group of a terminal
device.  It does not change the controlling terminal of any process.

Dave



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