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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Joerg Wunsch
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" "
.Dd December 29, 1996
.Os
.Dt PTY 3
.Sh NAME
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.Nm openpty ,
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.Nm forkpty
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.Nd auxiliary functions to obtain a pseudo-terminal
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.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libutil
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
.In sys/ioctl.h
.In termios.h
.In libutil.h
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.Ft int
.Fn openpty "int *amaster" "int *aslave" "char *name" "struct termios *termp" "struct winsize *winp"
.Ft int
.Fn forkpty "int *amaster" "char *name" "struct termios *termp" "struct winsize *winp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The function
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.Fn openpty
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attempts to obtain the next available pseudo-terminal from the system (see
.Xr pty 4 ) .
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If it successfully finds one, it subsequently tries to change the
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ownership of the slave device to the real UID of the current process,
the group membership to the group
.Dq tty
(if such a group exists in the system), the access permissions for
reading and writing by the owner, and for writing by the group, and to
invalidate any current use of the line by calling
.Xr revoke 2 .
.Pp
If the argument
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.Fa name
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is not
.Dv NULL ,
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.Fn openpty
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copies the pathname of the slave pty to this area.
The caller is
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responsible for allocating the required space in this array.
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.Pp
If the arguments
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.Fa termp
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or
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.Fa winp
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are not
.Dv NULL ,
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.Fn openpty
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initializes the termios and window size settings from the structures
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these arguments point to, respectively.
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.Pp
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Upon return, the open file descriptors for the master and slave side
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of the pty are returned in the locations pointed to by
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.Fa amaster
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and
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.Fa aslave ,
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respectively.
.Pp
The .Fn function
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The
.Fn forkpty
function first calls
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.Fn openpty
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to obtain the next available pseudo-terminal from the system.
Upon success,
it forks off a new process.
In the child process, it closes the descriptor
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for the master side of the pty, and calls
.Xr login_tty 3
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for the slave pty.
In the parent process, it closes the descriptor for the
slave side of the pty.
The arguments
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.Fa amaster ,
.Fa name ,
.Fa termp ,
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and
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.Fa winp
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have the same meaning as described for
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.Fn openpty .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
The .Fn function
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The
.Fn openpty
function returns 0 on success, or -1 on failure.
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.Pp
The .Fn function
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The
.Fn forkpty
function returns -1 on failure, 0 in the slave process, and the process ID of
the slave process in the parent process.
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.Sh ERRORS
On failure,
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.Fn openpty
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will set the global variable
.Dv errno
to
.Er ENOENT .
.Pp
In addition to this,
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.Fn forkpty
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may set it to any value as described for
.Xr fork 2 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chmod 2 ,
.Xr chown 2 ,
.Xr fork 2 ,
.Xr getuid 2 ,
.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr revoke 2 ,
.Xr login_tty 3 ,
.Xr pty 4 ,
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.Xr termios 4 ,
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.Xr group 5
.Sh BUGS
The calling process must have an effective UID of super-user in order
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to perform all the intended actions.
No notification will occur if
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.Fn openpty
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or
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.Fn forkpty
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failed to proceed with one of the described steps, as long as they could
at least allocate the pty at all (and create the new process in the case
of
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.Fn forkpty ) .
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