Alan Cox wrote:
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> Not really. The task would get suspended if it attempted to change the
> tty settings while not being session leader. This is part of the POSIX
> and BSD job control.

I haven't heard about this new restriction, but it begs the observation
that stty, when forked from a shell (the usual case), is never a session
leader.
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