grantpt3p
Grant access to the slave pseudo-terminal device
Usage
#include <stdlib.h>
int grantpt(int fildes);
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
Overview
The grantpt() function shall change the mode and ownership of the slave pseudo-terminal device associated with its master pseudo-terminal counterpart. The fildes argument is a file descriptor that refers to a master pseudo-terminal device. The user ID of the slave shall be set to the real UID of the calling process and the group ID shall be set to an unspecified group ID. The permission mode of the slave pseudo-terminal shall be set to readable and writable by the owner, and writable by the group.
The behavior of the grantpt() function is unspecified if the application has installed a signal handler to catch SIGCHLD signals.
Return value
Upon successful completion, grantpt() shall return 0; otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.
Errors
The grantpt() function may fail if:
EACCES
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The corresponding slave pseudo-terminal device could not be accessed. |
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EBADF
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The fildes argument is not a valid open file descriptor. |
EINVAL
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The fildes argument is not associated with a master pseudo-terminal device. |
The following sections are informative.
Examples
None.
Application usage
None.
Rationale
See the RATIONALE section for posix_openpt().
Future directions
None.