[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#628843: login: tty hijacking possible in "su" via TIOCSTI ioctl

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Quoting "Simon Ruderich" <simon at ruderich.org>:

Loss of job control in the shell.

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 04:22:47PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>> The problem is that we don't want to use setsid() in all situations,
>> because it will introduce regressions. From util-linux ReleaseNotes:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> In which situations will this cause regressions? I tried to find
> cases where this will break, but I can't think of any (I guess
> that's because I'm just using su in a very basic way).
>
> Regards
> Simon
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