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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using popen from a daemon
Message-ID: <13262@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jun 90 16:06:11 GMT
References: <YQJ$'7_@rpi.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <YQJ$'7_@rpi.edu> todd@narnia.ecs.rpi.edu (R. Lindsay Todd) writes:
>There is nothing in the man pages I have that indicate that popen must have
>a controlling tty.  Is this some unwritten standard "feature" of popen, or
>is it a buggy implementation?

Maybe it's a bug in the application?
popen() does not require a controlling tty; neither should the shell
that it invokes.  Unless somebody has been mucking around with the
system software, something else must be going on.