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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3 BSD and getting rid of control tty
Summary: use SIGALRM
Message-ID: <3058@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 89 18:25:40 GMT
References: <15412@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <15412@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, ericb@libdev.dartmouth.edu (Eric Bivona) writes:
	about disassociating from a /dev/tty whose control terminal is
	no longer open.

I reported this problem to Berkeley some time ago - ca. October, 1988.
My solution is to use a SIGALRM around the open of /dev/tty.  It avoids
a kernel hack.