Re: Unix-daemons in Ada

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3B422FAF.886FAF2B@ebox.tninet.se>, Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se> writes:
> James Rogers wrote:
>> What you are asking is an operating system issue and not strictly a
>> language issue.
> 
> READ the subject !!!
> He must do a number of things :
> 1. Get his process in such a order such that IT can't get a 
>    new controlling terminal. this is to prevent a normal user from
> stopping
>    the process.
> 
> 2. The process should be able to open /dev/console and other tty devices
>    without turning the device into the processs controlling terminal !
>    If not the process cant use /dev/console for error messages !

That is what James Rogers said.  This is an operating system issue.
Having the process "get a new controlling terminal" is a Unix issue,
as are devices like /dev/console.

I am not saying there would be no problems on VMS, but they would
be different problems, certainly with different solutions.