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Re: Reparenting processes?
>> This makes me wonder if perhaps login sessions should have their
>> stdin/stdout/stderr set up on /dev/tty instead of the actual ctty
>> device. But if that's done, will the `real' ctty device even be
>> open? [...]
> Interesting. Need to think about that...
All I've come up with so far is that maybe a session should hold an
open on its ctty. It would address this issue, but would it produce
others? None come to mind offhand, but then, I didn't think of the
file descriptor issues until I got halfway through implementing
reparenting....
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