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Proposed additional procedures for 205 from scsh 3.12.6 John Cowan (28 Jul 2020 20:21 UTC)

Proposed additional procedures for SRFI 205 from scsh, and licensing from that, including SRFI 170 hga@xxxxxx (30 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC)

open-control-tty Lassi Kortela (30 Jul 2020 13:26 UTC)

SRFI 170 & 205 and scsh licensing Lassi Kortela (30 Jul 2020 13:29 UTC)

Re: SRFI 170 & 205 and scsh licensing hga@xxxxxx (30 Jul 2020 13:51 UTC)

Re: SRFI 170 & 205 and scsh licensing Lassi Kortela (30 Jul 2020 14:04 UTC)

Re: SRFI 170 & 205 and scsh licensing Arthur A. Gleckler (31 Jul 2020 03:49 UTC)

Re: Proposed additional procedures for SRFI 205 from scsh, and licensing from that, including SRFI 170 John Cowan (31 Jul 2020 02:21 UTC)

Re: Proposed additional procedures for SRFI 205 from scsh, and licensing from that, including SRFI 170 hga@xxxxxx (31 Jul 2020 15:39 UTC)

Re: Proposed additional procedures for SRFI 205 from scsh, and licensing from that, including SRFI 170 Lassi Kortela (31 Jul 2020 15:48 UTC)

Re: Proposed additional procedures for SRFI 205 from scsh, and licensing from that, including SRFI 170 John Cowan (05 Aug 2020 04:01 UTC)

Re: Proposed additional procedures for SRFI 205 from scsh, and licensing from that, including SRFI 170 hga@xxxxxx (05 Aug 2020 12:52 UTC)

open-control-tty Lassi Kortela 30 Jul 2020 13:26 UTC

>> These seem to belong in SRFI 205 rather than ProcessesCowan:
>>
>> (open-control-tty /tty-name [flags]/)     ---> /port/         (procedure)
>>
>>     This procedure opens terminal device /tty-name/ as the process'
>>     control terminal (see the termios man page for more information on
>>     control terminals). The /tty-name/ argument is....

+1

The usual Unix term is "controlling terminal" - "controlling" instead of
"control". This is also the term POSIX uses:
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap11.html#tag_11_01_03>.