Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] generic-pidhash-2.5.36-D4, BK-curr | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:54:06 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209190938340.1594-100000@home.transmeta.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote: >On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote: >> The controlling terminal is inherited by a child process during a fork() >> function call. A process relinquishes its controlling terminal when it creates >> a new session with the setsid() function; other processes remaining in the >> old session that had this terminal as their controlling terminal continue >> to have it. > >Well, that certainly clinches the fact that the controlling terminal _can_ >and does continue to be hold by processes outside the current session >group.
No, not at all. A few lines above that it said:
>> A terminal that is associated with a session. Each session may have >> at most one controlling terminal associated with it, and a controlling >> terminal is associated with exactly one session.
A session has zero or 1 controlling terminals. A controlling terminal is associated with one session only.
Mike.
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