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Re: void tty association


On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:01:06PM -0700, Robert L. Brown JR wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I'm trying to figure out how to remove the  "tty association" of the control
> terminal
> from a child process in CYGWIN  .
> 
> Under SYSV I would call setpgrp()
> 
> In BSD, I would call
>    fd=open("/dev/tty", _O_RDRW);
>    ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY, 0);
> 
> The CYGWIN API Reference mentions tcsetpgrp().
> When I do "man tcsetpgrp" under CYGWIN, I get nothing.
> I've looked at the tcsetpgrp() call manpage under Solaris and
> it says that it only change the pgid of the controlling terminal.
> 
> How do you remove the tty association in CYGWIN?

setsid().

Corinna

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