>> 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. > Interesting. Need to think about that...
One thing I can remark on already: tty(1) and ttyname(3) become less useful, at least as they are currently implemented. When I run $SHELL with stdin, stdout, and stderr connected to /dev/tty, then tty(1), which is basically just a thin wrapper around ttyname(3), prints /dev/tty on 1.4T, and does so on 5.2 except for ptys (the exception because of an apparent optimization attempt in ttyname(3)). I'm not sure whether I think tty(1) and/or ttyname(3) should drill through /dev/tty and find the real tty; I can see arguments each way. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
