POSIX_OPENPT
POSIX_OPENPT
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
VERSIONS
ATTRIBUTES
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON
NAME
posix_openpt − open a pseudoterminal device
SYNOPSIS
#include
<stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int posix_openpt(int flags);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
posix_openpt(): _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600
DESCRIPTION
The posix_openpt() function opens an unused pseudoterminal master device, returning a file descriptor that can be used to refer to that device.
The flags argument is a bit mask that ORs together zero or more of the following flags:
|
O_RDWR |
Open the device for both reading and writing. It is usual to specify this flag. |
O_NOCTTY
Do not make this device the controlling terminal for the process.
RETURN VALUE
On success, posix_openpt() returns a nonnegative file descriptor which is the lowest numbered unused descriptor. On failure, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
See open(2).
VERSIONS
Glibc support for posix_openpt() has been provided since version 2.2.1.
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading
(see pthreads(7))
The posix_openpt() function is thread-safe.
CONFORMING TO
posix_openpt() is part of the UNIX 98 pseudoterminal support (see pts(4)). This function is specified in POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
The posix_openpt() function is a recent invention in POSIX. Some UNIX implementations that support System V (aka UNIX 98) pseudoterminals don’t have this function, but it is easy to implement:
int
posix_openpt(int flags)
{
return open("/dev/ptmx", flags);
}
Calling posix_openpt() creates a pathname for the corresponding pseudoterminal slave device. The pathname of the slave device can be obtained using ptsname(3). The slave device pathname exists only as long as the master device is open.
SEE ALSO
open(2), getpt(3), grantpt(3), ptsname(3), unlockpt(3), pts(4), pty(7)
COLOPHON
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