[libvirt] [PATCH] Prevent streams from becoming libvirtd controlling TTY

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 04:33:34PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 11:24 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > 
> > When opening a stream to a device which is a TTY, that device
> > may become the controlling TTY of libvirtd, if libvirtd was
> > daemonized. This in turn means when the other end of the stream
> > closes, libvirtd gets SIGHUP, causing it to reload its config.
> > Prevent this by forcing O_NOCTTY on all streams that are opened
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/fdstream.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> ACK.  Bet you had fun tracking down that dark corner of POSIX.

I can think of many appropriate words for what I had to do to
discover this. 'fun' is not one of them :-P

Daniel
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