[git commit] getty: add O_NONBLOCK to open which is used to drop ctty
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 22 06:19:42 UTC 2011
commit: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=e206a4de4c700230f3dc9fdaa101c6f4432e1c27
branch: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
loginutils/getty.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/loginutils/getty.c b/loginutils/getty.c
index 2308460..3496f02 100644
--- a/loginutils/getty.c
+++ b/loginutils/getty.c
@@ -556,10 +556,12 @@ int getty_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
* In this case (setsid failed) we may still have ctty,
* and it may be different from tty we need to control!
* If we still have ctty, on Linux ioctl(TIOCSCTTY)
- * (which we are going to call a bit later) always fails.
- * Try to drop ctty now to prevent that.
+ * (which we are going to use a bit later) always fails -
+ * even if we try to take ctty which is already ours!
+ * Try to drop old ctty now to prevent that.
+ * Use O_NONBLOCK: old ctty may be a serial line.
*/
- fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR);
+ fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
if (fd >= 0) {
ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY);
close(fd);
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