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Finally document the interfaces found in libutil. While being here, also add the missing declaration of forkpty() to libutil.h. Btw., the calling interface for login(3) is crude. Some better abstraction is needed, perhaps similar to logwtmp(3). 2.2 candidate, but i'll wait for the spelling police first. :)
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Joerg Wunsch
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Finally document the interfaces found in libutil. While being here, also add the missing declaration of forkpty() to libutil.h. Btw., the calling interface for login(3) is crude. Some better abstraction is needed, perhaps similar to logwtmp(3). 2.2 candidate, but i'll wait for the spelling police first. :)
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Finally document the interfaces found in libutil. While being here, also add the missing declaration of forkpty() to libutil.h. Btw., the calling interface for login(3) is crude. Some better abstraction is needed, perhaps similar to logwtmp(3). 2.2 candidate, but i'll wait for the spelling police first. :)
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.\" "
.Dd December 29, 1996
.Os
.Dt LOGIN_TTY 3
.Sh NAME
.Nm login_tty
.Nd prepare a tty for a new login session
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.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libutil
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In libutil.h
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.Ft int
.Fn login_tty "int fd"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The function
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.Fn login_tty
prepares a terminal for a new login session. The file descriptor
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.Ar fd
passed to
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.Fn login_tty
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must be opened for reading and writing on a terminal device. It will be
made the controlling terminal for the calling process, after allocating
a new session with
.Xr setsid 2 .
This terminal device will also be made the standard input, standard output,
and standard error output of the calling process.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The .Fn function
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The
.Fn login_tty
function returns -1 if it could not make the device referenced by
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.Ar fd
the controlling terminal of the calling process, and 0 otherwise.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dup2 2 ,
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
.Xr setsid 2 ,
.Xr tty 4
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