From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cceb19dbd864b8da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-03 14:39:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unix-daemons in Ada Message-ID: References: <87sngg3jp8.fsf@520075220525-0001.dialin.t-online.de> <3B3F2F39.50BAF3CF@worldnet.att.net> <87ofr43efd.fsf@520075220525-0001.dialin.t-online.de> <3B3F5C68.AA1C0924@worldnet.att.net> <3B422FAF.886FAF2B@ebox.tninet.se> Organization: LJK Software Date: 3 Jul 2001 17:39:06 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 994196348 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:39:08 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:39:08 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9400 Date: 2001-07-03T17:39:06-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B422FAF.886FAF2B@ebox.tninet.se>, Stefan Skoglund 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.