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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/openpty.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/openpty.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f88668fb --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/openpty.3 @@ -0,0 +1,219 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: openpty.3,v 1.21 2025/06/06 22:01:40 schwarze Exp $ +.\" Copyright (c) 1995 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software developed by the Computer Systems +.\" Engineering group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract +.\" BG 91-66 and contributed to Berkeley. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 6 2025 $ +.Dt OPENPTY 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm getptmfd , +.Nm openpty , +.Nm fdopenpty , +.Nm login_tty , +.Nm forkpty , +.Nm fdforkpty +.Nd tty utility functions +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Lb libutil +.In termios.h +.In util.h +.Ft int +.Fn getptmfd "void" +.Ft int +.Fn openpty "int *amaster" "int *aslave" "char *name" "const struct termios *termp" "const struct winsize *winp" +.Ft int +.Fn fdopenpty "int ptmfd" "int *amaster" "int *aslave" "char *name" "const struct termios *termp" "const struct winsize *winp" +.Ft int +.Fn login_tty "int fd" +.Ft pid_t +.Fn forkpty "int *amaster" "char *name" "const struct termios *termp" "const struct winsize *winp" +.Ft pid_t +.Fn fdforkpty "int ptmfd" "int *amaster" "char *name" "const struct termios *termp" "const struct winsize *winp" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn openpty , +.Fn login_tty , +and +.Fn forkpty +functions perform manipulations on ttys and pseudo-ttys. +.Pp +The +.Fn openpty +function finds an available pseudo-tty and returns file descriptors +for the master and slave in +.Fa amaster +and +.Fa aslave . +If +.Fa name +is non-null, the filename of the slave is returned in +.Fa name +(a string of at least 16 characters). +If +.Fa termp +is non-null, the terminal parameters of the slave will be set to the +values in +.Fa termp . +If +.Fa winp +is non-null, the window size of the slave will be set to the values in +.Fa winp . +.Pp +The +.Fn openpty +function allocates the pseudo-tty through the +.Pa /dev/ptm +device (see +.Xr pty 4 +for details) which means that its ownership is changed to the UID of +the caller, permissions are set to correct values, and all earlier +uses of that device are revoked (see +.Xr revoke 2 +for details). +.Pp +The +.Fn fdopenpty +and +.Fn fdforkpty +functions work like +.Fn openpty +and +.Fn forkpty +but expect a +.Pa /dev/ptm +file descriptor +.Fa ptmfd +obtained from the +.Fn getptmfd +function. +.Pp +The +.Fn login_tty +function prepares for a login on the tty +.Fa fd +(which may be a real tty device, or the slave of a pseudo-tty as +returned by +.Fn openpty ) +by creating a new session, making +.Fa fd +the controlling terminal for the current process, setting +.Fa fd +to be the standard input, output, and error streams of the current +process, and closing +.Fa fd . +.Pp +The +.Fn forkpty +function combines +.Fn openpty , +.Fn fork , +and +.Fn login_tty +to create a new process operating in a pseudo-tty. +The file +descriptor of the master side of the pseudo-tty is returned in +.Fa amaster , +and the filename of the slave in +.Fa name +if it is non-null. +The +.Fa termp +and +.Fa winp +parameters, if non-null, will determine the terminal attributes and +window size of the slave side of the pseudo-tty. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If a call to +.Fn openpty , +.Fn login_tty , +or +.Fn forkpty +is not successful, \-1 is returned and +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +Otherwise, +.Fn openpty , +.Fn login_tty , +and the child process of +.Fn forkpty +return 0, and the parent process of +.Fn forkpty +returns the process ID of the child process. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z]x -compact +.It Pa /dev/pty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z] +master pseudo terminals +.It Pa /dev/tty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z] +slave pseudo terminals +.It Pa /dev/ptm +pseudo terminal management device +.El +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn getptmfd +may fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the routine +.Xr open 2 . +.Pp +.Fn openpty +and +.Fn fdopenpty +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOENT +There are no available ttys. +.El +.Pp +.Fn fdopenpty +and +.Fn fdforkpty +will fail if +.Fn getptmfd +fails. +.Fn forkpty +and +.Fn fdforkpty +will fail if either +.Fn openpty +or +.Fn fork +fails. +.Pp +.Fn login_tty +will fail if +.Fn ioctl +fails to set +.Fa fd +to the controlling terminal of the current process. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr revoke 2 , +.Xr pty 4 |
