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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2007-12-10 07:06:04 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2007-12-10 07:06:04 +0000
commit2afabe8b830cc8c33f5f1984767af4b8dc54803b (patch)
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downloadbusybox-2afabe8b830cc8c33f5f1984767af4b8dc54803b.tar.gz
init: remove superfluous forks and messing up with argv[0]
cttyhack: add stealing of ctty
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@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ this is a great mystery.
becomes its controlling tty.
</p><p>The BSD approach is that one has to explicitly call
</p><blockquote>
-<pre>ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY, ...);
+<pre>ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY, 0/1);
</pre>
</blockquote>
@@ -378,6 +378,8 @@ and (ii) it does not yet have a controlling tty, and
(iii) maybe the tty should not already control some other session;
if it does it is an error if we aren't root, or we steal the tty
if we are all-powerful.
+[vda: correction: third parameter controls this: if 1, we steal tty from
+any such session, if 0, we don't steal]
</p><p>Opening some terminal will give us a controlling tty,
provided that (i) the current process is a session leader, and
(ii) it does not yet have a controlling tty, and