commit 3f63454e2258f8b187764066fca2cc2a9361b628
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Thu Nov 09 11:06:30 2006 +0000
committer Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Thu Nov 09 11:06:30 2006 +0000
tree 14bfc812e6c73e853a608bf8b5d568bf120f6586
parent 3ed5c2a277fcc2da2b52aa923e32d267e4be0dd5

Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().

Lib/pty.py

diff --git a/Lib/pty.py b/Lib/pty.py
index fae162d..889113c 100644
--- a/Lib/pty.py
+++ b/Lib/pty.py
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@
         if (slave_fd > STDERR_FILENO):
             os.close (slave_fd)
 
+        # Explicitly open the tty to make it become a controlling tty.
+        tmp_fd = os.open(os.ttyname(STDOUT_FILENO), os.O_RDWR)
+        os.close(tmp_fd)
+
     # Parent and child process.
     return pid, master_fd