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Hi,

I have written a program which runs as a daemon.
To lose the controlling tty, I call ioctl():

            if ( (fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)) >= 0) {
                ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY, (char *)NULL); /* lose controlling tty */
                close(fd);

I can compile the program under Linux and NeXT. But I also want to
compile it under SunOS 5.5. The compiler returns the error message,
that TIOCNOTTY is unknow. I can't find out how to use the ioctl function
with Sun operating system.

Thanks for any hints.

Tim

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|> Hi,
|>
|> I have written a program which runs as a daemon.
|> To lose the controlling tty, I call ioctl():
|>
|>             if ( (fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)) >= 0) {
|>                 ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY, (char *)NULL); /* lose controlling tty */
|>                 close(fd);
|>
|> I can compile the program under Linux and NeXT. But I also want to
|> compile it under SunOS 5.5. The compiler returns the error message,
|> that TIOCNOTTY is unknow. I can't find out how to use the ioctl function
|> with Sun operating system.
...

the TIOCNOTTY cannot be used in this manner.
its designed to prevent a terminal device become the control terminal
of a process when it is opened. if a process has no control terminal
the normal behaviour for a terminal device is to become it when opened.

to loose your control terminal you have to call setsid() to create a
new session. if your systems lacks setsid() you may use setpgrp() if it
is a posix like call on your system or setpgrp(0, 0) if it is a
bsd like call on your system to get the same effect.

kf

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