GRANTPT
Section: POSIX Programmer's Manual (3P)
Updated: 2017
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NAME
grantpt
--- grant access to the slave pseudo-terminal device
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
int grantpt(int fildes);
DESCRIPTION
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
-
The corresponding slave pseudo-terminal device could not be accessed.
- EBADF
-
The
fildes
argument is not a valid open file descriptor.
- EINVAL
-
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.
SEE ALSO
open(),
posix_openpt(),
ptsname(),
unlockpt()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017,
<stdlib.h>
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