Unix Programming - Re: is it necessary to be a session leader to attach psuedo terminal as a controlling

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Re: is it necessary to be a session leader to attach psuedo terminal as a controlling

pankajtakawale

2006-07-24, 7:59 am

Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:

> pankajtakawale wrote:
>
> Is there a reason why you can't block SIGHUP before spawning a child?
> This way children would not receive SIGHUP since the signal mask is
> inherited by child processed.
>
Yes blocking SIGHUP is one way. I dont want block SIGHUP in all cases.
foreground process wouldnt receive SIGHUP if I close the session. I
think I have to cpmpromise somewhere.

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs...igprocmask.html
>
> P.S. If you are using Solaris 8, it's broken in this regard. The signal
> mask on this operating system is only inherited by threads, not child
> processes.

Thanks

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