Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: POSIX bashing Message-ID: <127222@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 1 Apr 91 23:52:28 GMT References: <15645@smoke.brl.mil> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 16 In article <15645@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >(Of course, NIST went ahead and mandated [ that the POSIX.1 job control >option be supported ] in the FIPS. They always seem to think they >know better than the technical committees who develop the standards.) Believe me, they don't. BTW, I assume that what Berkeley and Sun have done (setsid and friends) is what you're talking about. I would imagine that this fixes the security problems, but still uses the tty process group to multiplex terminal input, which probably drives Doug up the wall. Barry, why didn't you ask Kirk about this when y'all were here last week? -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane