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grantpt(3) | Library Functions Manual | grantpt(3) |
NAME¶
grantpt - grant access to the slave pseudoterminal
LIBRARY¶
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <stdlib.h>
int grantpt(int fd);
grantpt():
Since glibc 2.24:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
glibc 2.23 and earlier:
_XOPEN_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION¶
The grantpt() function changes the mode and owner of the slave pseudoterminal device corresponding to the master pseudoterminal referred to by the file descriptor fd. The user ID of the slave is set to the real UID of the calling process. The group ID is set to an unspecified value (e.g., tty). The mode of the slave is set to 0620 (crw--w----).
The behavior of grantpt() is unspecified if a signal handler is installed to catch SIGCHLD signals.
RETURN VALUE¶
When successful, grantpt() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS¶
VERSIONS¶
grantpt() is provided since glibc 2.1.
ATTRIBUTES¶
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
grantpt () | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
STANDARDS¶
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
NOTES¶
This is part of the UNIX 98 pseudoterminal support, see pts(4).
Many systems implement this function via a set-user-ID helper binary called "pt_chown". On Linux systems with a devpts filesystem (present since Linux 2.2), the kernel normally sets the correct ownership and permissions for the pseudoterminal slave when the master is opened (posix_openpt(3)), so that nothing must be done by grantpt(). Thus, no such helper binary is required (and indeed it is configured to be absent during the glibc build that is typical on many systems).
SEE ALSO¶
open(2), posix_openpt(3), ptsname(3), unlockpt(3), pts(4), pty(7)
2023-02-05 | Linux man-pages 6.03 |