TIOCCDTR (bug|feature)
acg at pur-ee.UUCP
acg at pur-ee.UUCP
Sat Jun 18 00:28:08 AEST 1983
We have a local mod on the PUCC systems that only permit an
ioctl to proceed if the process has IREAD permission on the
inode or if the device is the process's controlling tty.
We have yet to see anything that this breaks.
Philosophically, this is justifyable if one considers executing
an ioctl on a terminal in the same class as forcing characters
to the terminal's input stream. Permission to execute an ioctl
on a terminal should be bound to input (read) permission not
write (output) permission.
- Jeff Schwab
Purdue University Computing Center
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