* Karel Zak: > I have tried to send tty FD to another process by unix socket and the > ioctl result is EPERM. See the test_tiocsti below. It seems only root > can do it (try suid the test program). > > session A: > ./test_tiocsti --receive I think the recipient has to give up its controlling terminal, become a session leader, and then reopen the passed terminal (from /proc/self/fd, if it's not reachable from /dev/pts). This way, you should be able to do away with the root requirement. > session B: > runuser -u kzak -- ./test_tiocsti --send > >> The ioctl should be fired in the hell... :-) > > This is still true. The kernel implementation doesn't even do error checking. Surely it can fail if there isn't enough memory in the destination buffer ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
