Re: give_terminal_to() / maybe_give_terminal_to() race

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/1/23 7:58 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:

> I would have though the obvious fix was to move setting tty pgrp into the 
> child; this would guarantee that it happens before the execve() and before 
> the waitpid() returns.

Not quite; child processes already set the terminal pgrp. The question is
whether or not to have the parent set it as well.

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