Questions tagged [controlling-terminal]
The "controlling terminal" is an attribute of a process that identifies the terminal device that affects it with regards to "job control". It typically affects processes that run inside a terminal or open a terminal device.
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Is controlling terminal a per-process concept?
The Linux Programming Interface says
The ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY) operation can be used to remove a process’s association
with its controlling terminal, specified via the file descriptor fd. ...
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For a non-controlling process, is `ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY)` the same as `close(fd)`?
Assume a session has a controlling terminal.
If a process in the session that is not the session leader, calls ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY), is it correct that it only closes the fd for itself? Is it the ...
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Can a (non-)controlling process detach its controlling terminal by closing its file descriptor?
In a process session with a controlling terminal,
if the controlling process closes the file descriptor of the controlling terminal, does the process session become detached from the controlling ...
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Does an X client process always have one or more GUI window(s)?
Does an X client process always have one or more GUI window(s)?
Conversely, if a process has one or more GUI window(s), is it an X client process?
Does an X client never have a controlling terminal?...
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what relations are between my current controlling terminal and `/dev/tty`?
On Lubuntu 18.04, I run a shell in lxterminal. Its controlling terminal is the current pseudoterminal slave:
$ tty
/dev/pts/2
I would like to know what relations are between my current controlling ...
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When a session leader acquires a controlling terminal, how would the other existing processes in the session also acquire the controlling terminal?
Suppose there is a session with multiple processes in it and without a controlling terminal.
When the session leader creates a connection to a controlling terminal,
how would the other processes ...
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Does a shell automatically connect file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 to its controlling terminal?
From The Linux Programming Interface
In an interactive shell, these three file
descriptors 0, 1 and 2 normally refer to the terminal under which the shell is running.
Does "the terminal ...
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Background, zombie, daemon and without ctty - are these concepts connected?
How these process concepts are related together - background, zombie, daemon and without controlling terminal?
I feel that they are somehow close, especially through the concept of controlling ...
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Is `controlling terminal` solely for user control?
I can kill processes and send signals to them with kill, so I don't need controlling terminal (or ctty) for that. So.. is the purpose of controlling terminal is solely for reacting to nudges from user?...
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Process without a controlling terminal
What happens with process when it is run without a controlling terminal? How is that process different from a standard processes? What features does it lose and what does it acquire?
UPDATE #1
The ...
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Does keyboard input always go through a controlling terminal?
Am I right that all input typed from the keyboard goes through a controlling terminal? That means that if a program is run without a controlling terminal, it won't be able to receive any user input. ...
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List all processes without controlling terminal (only)?
Is there a portable way to do this?
On Linux, I can use ps a -N
but this option isn't available on other (POSIX) systems.
Of course I can use grep '^?' with, say, -o tty,... but is there something ...
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How to get the real name of the controlling terminal?
How can one get the real name of the controlling terminal (if there is one, else an error) as a pathname?
By "real name", I mean not /dev/tty, which cannot be used by other arbitrary processes to ...
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How do I assign the controlling terminal to other process?
I use TIOCSCTTY to forcibly take over the controlling terminal in other "remote" application. But after the application finishes running, controlling terminal gets orphaned and bash stops reacting to ...
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Invoke a command/script disconnected from the controlling terminal?
I'm investigating the behaviour of a script that is normally run as an automated process (e.g. cron, Jenkins). The script can (eventually) invoke commands that behave differently (seeking user input) ...
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Please explain this output of ps -ef command?
A part of the output from the ps -ef command is given below :
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 2012 ? 00:00:01 init [3]
root 2 ...
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Concept of controlling terminal in Unix
Can some one please explain in an easy to understand way the concept of controlling terminal in unix and unix like systems ? Is it related to a session ? If yes, then how ?
