Re: [Expectperl-discuss] controlling terminal problems on FreeBSD

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> As far as I can tell from digging a little in the Pty/Expect/Tty 
> code as well as the kernel code, there's a problem with getting 
> rid of controlling terminals on FreeBSD. Actually the sentence 
> "Implement TIOCNOTTY or remove it from <sys/ioctl.h>" appears in 
> the todo list in /src/sys/kern/tty.c on FreeBSD.
...
> I'm pretty sure that I haven't reached a full understanding in all 
> of this, so any corrections would be very welcome.

Right, that's what I know about that issue too.  Sorry, no further 
additions to that.  And I frankly don't see a way to work around that 
issue.  As long as TIOCNOTTY isn't implemented, TIOCSCTTY may fail.

Roland
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