Hi Daniel! On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:23:29PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Running the following simple command fails (returns 1): > > openvt -e true > > And it prints the following message on the allocated vt: > > ioctl TIOCSCTTY: Operation not permitted > > Attached is an strace dump. > > Thanks for maintaining kbd in debian!
And thank you for your report, I can confirm the problem. The issue in
a nutshell is that without forking, openvt cannot create a session
because it already is a process group leader; this prohibits it from
using TIOCSCTTY. I’ll have a closer look at how to fix this as soon as
I can.
Cheers,
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