freebsd-dev/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
Ed Schouten 88b69f52ee Phase out ttyslot(3).
The ttyslot() function was originally part for SUSv1, marked LEGACY in
SUSv2 and removed later on. This function only makes sense when using
utmp(5), because it was used to determine the offset of the record for
the controlling TTY. It makes little sense to keep it here, because the
new utmpx file format doesn't index based on TTY slots.
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.Dd May 14, 2005
.Dt TTYNAME 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ttyname ,
.Nm ttyname_r ,
.Nm isatty
.Nd get name of associated terminal (tty) from file descriptor
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In unistd.h
.Ft char *
.Fn ttyname "int fd"
.Ft int
.Fn ttyname_r "int fd" "char *buf" "size_t len"
.Ft int
.Fn isatty "int fd"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These functions operate on the system file descriptors for terminal
type devices.
These descriptors are not related to the standard
.Tn I/O
.Dv FILE
typedef, but refer to the special device files found in
.Pa /dev
and for which an entry exists
in the initialization file
.Pa /etc/ttys
or pseudo-terminals.
(See
.Xr ttys 5 . )
.Pp
The
.Fn isatty
function
determines if the file descriptor
.Fa fd
refers to a valid
terminal type device.
.Pp
The
.Fn ttyname
function
gets the related device name of
a file descriptor for which
.Fn isatty
is true.
.Pp
The
.Fn ttyname
function
returns the name stored in a static buffer which will be overwritten
on subsequent calls.
The
.Fn ttyname_r
function
takes a buffer and length as arguments to avoid this problem.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn ttyname
function
returns the null terminated name if the device is found and
.Fn isatty
is true; otherwise
a
.Dv NULL
pointer is returned.
The
.Fn ttyname_r
function returns 0 if successful.
Otherwise an error number is returned.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/ttys" -compact
.It Pa /dev/\(**
.It Pa /etc/ttys
.El
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn ttyname_r
may fail and return the following error codes:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ENOTTY
The
.Fa fd
argument
is not a valid file descriptor.
.It Bq Er ERANGE
The
.Fa bufsize
argument
is smaller than the length of the string to be returned.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
.Xr ttys 5
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn isatty
and
.Fn ttyname
functions
appeared in
.At v7 .
The
.Fn ttyname_r
function
appeared in
.Fx 6.0 .