Re: bin/51556: less(1) generates SIGTTOU if lacking a controlling terminal

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/51556; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/51556: less(1) generates SIGTTOU if lacking a controlling
 terminal
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 02:38:58 +0000

 On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 02:10:00AM +0000, jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost wrote:
  > This is due to timeout(1) creating a new process group, leading to the
  > processes it invokes not having a controlling terminal.
 
 Creating a new process group does not result in the process it invokes
 not having a controlling terminal. Unless you mean it creates a new
 session; but it doesn't:
 
     % tty
     /dev/pts/1
     % timeout 30 tty
     /dev/pts/1
 
 So I'm not sure how to interpret the rest of this report.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost