Adding forktty terminal connection/disconnection helper

pkgs/os-specific/linux/forktty/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+let
+  s = # Generated upstream information
+  rec {
+    baseName="forktty";
+    version="1.3";
+    name="${baseName}-${version}";
+    hash="0nd55zdqly6nl98k9lc7j751x86cw9hayx1qn0725f22r1x3j5zb";
+    url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/utils/terminal/forktty-1.3.tgz";
+    sha256="0nd55zdqly6nl98k9lc7j751x86cw9hayx1qn0725f22r1x3j5zb";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [
+  ];
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  inherit (s) name version;
+  inherit buildInputs;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    inherit (s) url sha256;
+  };
+  preBuild = ''
+    sed -e s@/usr/bin/ginstall@install@g -i Makefile
+  '';
+  preInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p "$out/bin"
+    mkdir -p "$out/share/man/man8"
+  '';
+  makeFlags='' prefix="''${out}" manprefix="''${out}/share/" '';
+  meta = {
+    inherit (s) version;
+    description = ''Tool to detach from controlling TTY and attach to another'';
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2 ;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}

pkgs/os-specific/linux/forktty/default.upstream

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+url http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/utils/terminal/
+version_link 'forktty.*tgz'

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -898,6 +898,8 @@ let
     withX11 = true;
   };
 
+  forktty = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/forktty {};
+
   fortune = callPackage ../tools/misc/fortune { };
 
   fox = callPackage ../development/libraries/fox/default.nix {