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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man3/getpt.3 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/getpt.3')
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1 files changed, 74 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/getpt.3 b/man/man3/getpt.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fca62693e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/getpt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +'\" t +.\" This man page was written by Jeremy Phelps <jphelps@notreached.net>. +.\" +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(FREELY_REDISTRIBUTABLE) +.\" Redistribute and modify at will. +.\" %%%LICENSE_END +.\" +.TH getpt 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +getpt \- open a new pseudoterminal master +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <stdlib.h> +.P +.B "int getpt(void);" +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR getpt () +opens a new pseudoterminal device and returns a file descriptor +that refers to that device. +It is equivalent to opening the pseudoterminal multiplexor device +.P +.in +4n +.EX +open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR); +.EE +.in +.P +on Linux systems, though the pseudoterminal multiplexor device is located +elsewhere on some systems that use the GNU C library. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR getpt () +returns an open file descriptor upon successful completion. +Otherwise, it +returns \-1 and sets +.I errno +to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.BR getpt () +can fail with various errors described in +.BR open (2). +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR getpt () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH VERSIONS +Use +.BR posix_openpt (3) +instead. +.SH STANDARDS +GNU. +.SH HISTORY +glibc 2.1. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR grantpt (3), +.BR posix_openpt (3), +.BR ptsname (3), +.BR unlockpt (3), +.BR ptmx (4), +.BR pty (7) |