Re: Making terminal available for TIOCSCTTY

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>]

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.)

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