On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 10:25:33 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 28 17:35, Takashi Yano wrote: > > The commit 25c4ad6ea52f did not fix the CTTY behavior enough. For > > example, in the following test case, TTY will be associated as > > a CTTY on the second open() call even though the TTY is already > > CTTY of another session. This patch fixes the issue. > > The patch is ok, thanks. > > But while looking into this patch, I realized how confusing the old code > is. An unsuspecting reader will have a really hard time to figure out > what ctty values of -1 or -2 actually mean. The CVS log entry from 2012 > isn't enlightening either: > > On second thought, in the spirit of keeping things kludgy, set ctty to > -2 here as a special flag ... > > Would you mind to introduce speaking symbolic values for them and add > some comments to make them more transparent?
Ok. Do you mean, first push this CTTY patch, then, add comment for ctty values -1 and -2 in another patch? > Also, given this was a "kludge" from 10 years ago, is it really still > needed? > > As I said, it's confusing :} Currently, the special values mean: -1: CTTY is not initialized yet. Can associate with the TTY which is associated with the own session. -2: CTTY has been released by setsid(). Can associate with a new TTY as CTTY, but cannot associate with the TTYs already associated with other sessions. So, I think the two different values are necessary. -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp>