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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Joerg Wunsch
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.\"
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.\" All rights reserved.
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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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.\"
$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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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 changes 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
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reading and writing by the owner, and for writing by the group, and
invalidates any current use of the line by calling
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.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
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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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.
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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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn openpty
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function may fail and set the global variable
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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.Dv errno
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for any of the errors specified for the
.Xr grantpt 3 ,
.Xr posix_openpt 3 ,
.Xr ptsname 3 ,
and
.Xr unlockpt 3
functions and the
.Xr revoke 2
system call.
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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.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
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