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Diffstat (limited to 'man4/tty.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | man4/tty.4 | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man4/tty.4 b/man4/tty.4 index d9fdece164..a5ddcc52b5 100644 --- a/man4/tty.4 +++ b/man4/tty.4 @@ -31,8 +31,12 @@ The file \fI/dev/tty\fP is a character file with major number 5 and minor number 0, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group root.tty. It is a synonym for the controlling terminal of a process, if any. .LP -In addition to the \fBioctl\fP(2) requests supported by the device that -\fBtty\fP refers to, the \fBioctl\fP(2) request \fBTIOCNOTTY\fP is supported. +In addition to the +.BR ioctl (2) +requests supported by the device that +\fBtty\fP refers to, the +.BR ioctl (2) +request \fBTIOCNOTTY\fP is supported. .SS TIOCNOTTY Detach the current process from its controlling terminal. .sp @@ -40,7 +44,9 @@ If the process is the session leader, then SIGHUP and SIGCONT signals are sent to the foreground process group and all processes in the current session lose their controlling tty. .sp -This \fBioctl\fP(2) call only works on file descriptors connected +This +.BR ioctl (2) +call only works on file descriptors connected to \fI/dev/tty\fP. It is used by daemon processes when they are invoked by a user at a terminal. |