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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: let's get rid of ioctl()
Message-ID: <1508@fireball.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 11 Oct 88 02:27:48 GMT
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Wouldn't it be nice if ioctl() calls were effective only within the
process which executed them, and in its children (for initialization),
but NOT in its parent?
I.e. the ioctl() structures are local to a process (group) -> ...fcntl()!
By this scheme your terminal wouldn't hang anymore if some program like vi(1)
exited weirdly. Of course stty(1) would be replaced by a built-in.
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