Re: Reparenting processes?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> This makes me wonder if perhaps login sessions should have their
>> stdin/stdout/stderr set up on /dev/tty instead of the actual ctty
>> device.
> Interesting. Need to think about that...

One thing I can remark on already: tty(1) and ttyname(3) become less
useful, at least as they are currently implemented.  When I run $SHELL
with stdin, stdout, and stderr connected to /dev/tty, then tty(1),
which is basically just a thin wrapper around ttyname(3), prints
/dev/tty on 1.4T, and does so on 5.2 except for ptys (the exception
because of an apparent optimization attempt in ttyname(3)).

I'm not sure whether I think tty(1) and/or ttyname(3) should drill
through /dev/tty and find the real tty; I can see arguments each way.

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