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-rw-r--r--bin/sh/jobs.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sh/jobs.c b/bin/sh/jobs.c
index c46e526eab67..c0ba7d75e16d 100644
--- a/bin/sh/jobs.c
+++ b/bin/sh/jobs.c
@@ -928,7 +928,12 @@ forkshell(struct job *jp, union node *n, int mode)
pgrp = jp->ps[0].pid;
if (setpgid(0, pgrp) == 0 && mode == FORK_FG &&
ttyfd >= 0) {
- /*** this causes superfluous TIOCSPGRPS ***/
+ /*
+ * Each process in a pipeline must have the tty
+ * pgrp set before running its code.
+ * Only for pipelines of three or more processes
+ * could this be reduced to two calls.
+ */
if (tcsetpgrp(ttyfd, pgrp) < 0)
error("tcsetpgrp failed, errno=%d", errno);
}