let's get rid of ioctl()

[S. Zirin]

In article <1508 at fireball.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Wouldn't it be nice if ioctl() calls were effective only within the
>process which executed them, and in its children (for initialization),
>but NOT in its parent?

Ioctl()'s are used for a whole lot more than just setting terminal modes.
Perhaps Maarten meant to say termio(7) modes.

Seth Zirin
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