General note on rc scripts and daemonizing

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 17/07/2010 12:56, Ed Schouten wrote:
> ...
> 
> This has various implications. The most important one I can think of, is
> that the daemon can still do open("/dev/tty", ...) if it wants and spam
> your TTY, even if the daemon is running as user `nobody'. This also
> means that if you run the rc script from within a pseudo-terminal, it
> can never actually destroy the pseudo-terminal for you, because maybe
> the daemon is interested in using it.

What is not clear to me, in which way is that a problem?

Regards

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