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  • Off-topic drivel (Was: Response to my recent thread about TIOCSTI)

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Fri Nov 3 20:23:46 2023
    In article <7gb1N.177699$sxoa.49926@fx13.iad>,
    Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
    Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> writes:
    On 2023-11-03, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
    The introduction of threads pretty much invalidated the idea of
    a global errno, which is why all newly defined POSIX system calls
    return the error number directly rather than leveraging the
    legacy errno (threaded applications define errno as a thread-local
    variable to accomodate the legacy system calls).

    I hate having to killfile my own thread.

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  • From Philip Guenther@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Sat Nov 4 21:24:11 2023
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 1:23:51 PM UTC-7, Kenny McCormack wrote:
    In article <7gb1N.177699$sxoa....@fx13.iad>,
    Scott Lurndal <sl...@pacbell.net> wrote:
    Kaz Kylheku <864-11...@kylheku.com> writes:
    On 2023-11-03, Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
    The introduction of threads pretty much invalidated the idea of
    a global errno, which is why all newly defined POSIX system calls
    return the error number directly rather than leveraging the
    legacy errno (threaded applications define errno as a thread-local
    variable to accomodate the legacy system calls).
    I hate having to killfile my own thread.

    So you missed the post where Kaz suggested the process would need to make the target tty its controlling tty? That's unfortunate.

    Philip Guenther

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