Re: [patch] generic-pidhash-2.5.36-D4, BK-curr

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209190938340.1594-100000@home.transmeta.com>,
Linus Torvalds  <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>> The controlling terminal is inherited by a child process during a fork()
>> function call. A process relinquishes its controlling terminal when it creates
>> a new session with the setsid() function; other processes remaining in the
>> old session that had this terminal as their controlling terminal continue
>> to have it.
>
>Well, that certainly clinches the fact that the controlling terminal _can_ 
>and does continue to be hold by processes outside the current session 
>group.

No, not at all. A few lines above that it said:

>> A terminal that is associated with a session. Each session may have
>> at most one controlling terminal associated with it, and a controlling
>> terminal is associated with exactly one session.

A session has zero or 1 controlling terminals. A controlling
terminal is associated with one session only.

Mike.