Subject: Re: tty allocation
To: Piotr Stolc <socrtp@sedez.iq.pl>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/26/2002 12:23:44
AFAIK Unix98 pty interface doesn't set the owner of the terminal
either. What's wrong with doing chown() yourself? Tha't precisely
what getty does AFAIK.

Jaromir

Piotr Stolc wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:37:18PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > > I am looking for a mechanism that allows an unpriviledged process to
> > > allocate the terminal. Linux has support for /dev/ptmx (PTY98) which can do
> > > what I am looking for. Does NetBSD have similar or alternative mechanism?
> > > Or maybe there are plans for it?
> > I'm not sure if it's what you want, but maybe openpty(3) can help?
> 
> No, it won't change the owner of terminal.
> Well, I will plan and write a simple hack for this in a module. I think this
> will be enough for my current needs.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> brain defragmentation in progress


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