Timeline for What is the purpose of the controlling terminal?
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| Nov 20, 2017 at 16:18 | comment | added | JdeBP | Related questions: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405755 and unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84737 | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 20:12 | answer | added | Bruce | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 19:17 | comment | added | ivanivan | Because it is a sub-process of the shell you were running in the terminal. Even if you ran this from soem other function like cron the cron process would be the parent process. Only way to get around it would be to boot a kernel and provide an init=/program - but then you couldn't redirect I/O to/from it | |
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| Nov 14, 2017 at 18:12 | history | asked | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |