Begin3 Title: forktty Version: 1.3 Entered-date: 15 Jan 11 Description: forktty forks, disconnects from the controlling terminal, optionally connects to a different controlling terminal and runs a program. E.g. forktty --sane -l /dev/ttyS0 bash runs bash on ttyS0. An included utility allows to defer execution until the DSR line is driven high getdsr ttyS0 -- forktty --sane -l ttyS0 login or alternatively via blocking open() forktty --sane --clocal -l /dev/ttyS0 -r login Keywords: fork daemon controlling terminal setsid getty login Author: Servaas Vandenberghe Maintained-by: vdb@picaros.org (odd fixes) Primary-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/utils/terminal Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk Original-site: ftp://picaros.org/soft Platforms: Linux HPUX10 and others Copying-policy: GPL End