BSD tty security, part 4: What You Can Look Forward To

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <1991Apr30.231235.7874 at mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> And what exactly is there to stop somebody running a daemon which grabs
>access to a pty immediately after it has been assigned, or immediately
>after it has been dynamically created, but before public write access has
>been turned off.

Who says they get created with public access turned *on*?

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