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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inappropriate ioctl for device Post 302813961 by alister on Tuesday 28th of May 2013 12:52:52 PM
Old 05-28-2013
I disagree with Corona688. Being in the foreground or background shouldn't affect what ioctl's a device supports.

It is my belief that the cause of the malfunction is that STDIN is not a terminal because the shell is redirecting STDIN from /dev/null when it runs the process (or pipeline) in the background.

Quote:
Originally Posted by POSIX
The standard input for an asynchronous list, before any explicit redirections are performed, shall be considered to be assigned to a file that has the same properties as /dev/null. If it is an interactive shell, this need not happen. In all cases, explicit redirection of standard input shall override this activity.
I don't know what system you're running, but on a circa 2007 Debian Linux install, /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h (which is the ultimate destination of the #include breadcrumb trail beginning at /usr/include/errno.h) has this to say:
Code:
#define ENOTTY          25      /* Not a typewriter */

Regards,
Alister
 

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tapset::tty(3stap)														tapset::tty(3stap)

NAME
tapset::tty - systemtap tty tapset DESCRIPTION
tty.open Called when a tty is opened See probe::tty.open(3stap) for details. tty.release Called when the tty is closed See probe::tty.release(3stap) for details. tty.resize Called when a terminal resize happens See probe::tty.resize(3stap) for details. tty.ioctl called when a ioctl is request to the tty See probe::tty.ioctl(3stap) for details. tty.init Called when a tty is being initalized See probe::tty.init(3stap) for details. tty.register Called when a tty device is registred See probe::tty.register(3stap) for details. tty.unregister Called when a tty device is being unregistered See probe::tty.unregister(3stap) for details. tty.poll Called when a tty device is being polled See probe::tty.poll(3stap) for details. tty.receive called when a tty receives a message See probe::tty.receive(3stap) for details. tty.write write to the tty line See probe::tty.write(3stap) for details. tty.read called when a tty line will be read See probe::tty.read(3stap) for details. SEE ALSO
probe::tty.open(3stap), probe::tty.release(3stap), probe::tty.resize(3stap), probe::tty.ioctl(3stap), probe::tty.init(3stap), probe::tty.register(3stap), probe::tty.unregister(3stap), probe::tty.poll(3stap), probe::tty.receive(3stap), probe::tty.write(3stap), probe::tty.read(3stap), stap(1), stapprobes(3stap) IBM
--- tapset::tty(3stap)
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