What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Dave Decot]

> > It would be nice to have a means of reassigning the controlling
> > terminal of a process, eg attach().
> 
> There's already an ioctl that'll do this. I like to refer to it as the
> "make me root" ioctl call.

If you're thinking of TIOCSPGRP, this ioctl() reassigns the associated
process group of a terminal device.  It does not change the controlling
terminal of any process.  And anyway, most Real Systems(tm) have closed
this ridiculous security hole.

Dave