Description of Problem: A race condition in /bin/login may cause loss of job control. This is noticed mainly in tcsh that loses most of its interactive features. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.11f-11.7.1 (in Redhat Linux 7.1 updates) util-linux-2.11f-12 (in RedHat Linux 7.2 updates) How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Telnet and login again and again until you get the problem. 2. Usually it takes me 5 to 10 attampts on an idle computer (686 single processor). Less on a busy SMP computer. 3. Using tcsh makes the problem more noticable. Actual Results: (in tcsh, immediately after login) Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). Thus no job control in this shell. Then when I get the prompt I cannot use arrow keys to edit line. When an app is running I cannot use CTRL-C or CTRL-Z to kill or suspend the app. Expected Results: I expect full functionality of tcsh. Additional Information: See also bug #56121 which is open against tcsh. Code (inside #ifdef USE_PAM) is calling ioctl(0, TIOCNOTTY, NULL); in the parent process immediately AFTER a fork(). The child process is doing setsid(); opentty(ttyn); (really re-opening the tty) Bahavior depends on the order in which things happen. If the ioctl happens first things work OK. If the ioctl comes after the open we start tcsh without a controlling tty and hence the problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54741 ***