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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Message-ID: <14020063@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 21:31:25 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> > It would be nice to have a means of reassigning the controlling
> > terminal of a process, eg attach().
> 
> There's already an ioctl that'll do this. I like to refer to it as the
> "make me root" ioctl call.

If you're thinking of TIOCSPGRP, this ioctl() reassigns the associated
process group of a terminal device.  It does not change the controlling
terminal of any process.  And anyway, most Real Systems(tm) have closed
this ridiculous security hole.

Dave