On 9/1/23 11:48 AM, Earl Chew wrote:
What remains might be whether there is value in maintaining the
present barrier in both parent and child so that it is
straightforward to reason about designation of the
foreground process in the controlling terminal.
What makes the current implementation, where each child and the parent all
change the terminal pgrp, more "straightforward" than leaving the change to
each child, if the change serves to eliminate the potential race condition?
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