Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > Background processes don't have terminal access. Whether it's a daemon > or something started as "commandname >/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null > &" from bash, it doesn't have access to a terminal.
A nitpick: a process running in the background or a process with no open terminal file descriptor still does have a controlling terminal under Unix/Linux. <URL: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/tty.4.html> <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fcntl.html#fcntl.ioctl> <URL: https://linux.die.net/man/2/setsid> <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.setsid> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
