On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:26:24PM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote: > > Is it somehow possible to obtain a pty (not interested in usused virtual > > console - only in different kinds of teminal emulators) so that > > a process that has it's stdin, stdout and stderr redirected there can > > claim it it's controling tty? > > Between the ioctl TIOCNOTTY and opening new terminal devices without > using O_NOCTTY should re-associate your process with a new terminal. > (Check open(2) for more hints.) I know how to make a pty my controling terminal. I however don't know how to make a pty suitable for using as controling tty for a process, whose parent has completely different controling tty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/