From cfccdc1bdbee7fb25ef0aa9639a3ffec926bf690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:56:25 +0100 Subject: Shuffle / create / enhance some UNIX / glibc pages. --- glibc/process.mdwn | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 glibc/process.mdwn (limited to 'glibc/process.mdwn') diff --git a/glibc/process.mdwn b/glibc/process.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9b2ec251 --- /dev/null +++ b/glibc/process.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +The GNU Hurd uses a similar concept to [[UNIX processes|unix/process]]. + +As a [[Mach task|microkernel/mach/task]] only implements a part of a UNIX +process, there is additional work to be done, for example for [[signal]]s, +[[environment_variable]]s, [[file_descriptor]]s. + + +# Controlling TTY + +Hurd controlling tty behavior is generally consistent with BSD's, including +`TIOCSCTTY`. Linux also has `TIOCSCTTY` and it is harmless to use it there. +But BSD and Hurd never do an implicit `TIOCSCTTY` (hence our `O_NOCTTY` is +zero). + +C.f. and the +following messages. -- cgit v1.2.3