GETTTYEN.3
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- .TH GETTTYENT 3
- .SH NAME
- getttyent, getttynam, setttyent, endttyent - interface to /etc/ttytab
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .ft B
- .nf
- #include <ttyent.h>
- struct ttyent *getttyent(void)
- struct ttyent *getttynam(const char *fInamefP)
- int setttyent(void)
- void endttyent(void)
- .fi
- .ft P
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- The
- .B getttyent
- functions provide an interface to the /etc/ttytab. (See
- .BR ttytab (5)).
- .PP
- To read one of these files one calls
- .B getttyent()
- several times to read the entries in the table until NULL is returned for
- end-of-file.
- .PP
- .B Getttyname()
- searches the
- .B ttytab
- file for the given terminal device. It is equivalent to a call to
- .BR setttyent(),
- several calls to
- .B getttyent()
- to locate the entry, and a final
- .B endttyent()
- to close the file.
- .PP
- .B Setttyent()
- opens or rewinds the ttytab database, and
- .B endttyent() closes it.
- .B Getttyent()
- opens the database if not already open, but does not close it.
- .PP
- The struct ttyent is defined by <ttyent.h> as follows:
- .sp
- .nf
- .ta +4n +6n +15n
- struct ttyent {
- char *ty_name; /* Name of the terminal device. */
- char *ty_type; /* Terminal type name (termcap(3)). */
- char **ty_getty; /* Program to run, normally getty. */
- char **ty_init; /* Initialization command, normally stty. */
- };
- .fi
- .PP
- A valid entry has at least two strings, so both
- .B ty_name
- and
- .B ty_type
- are filled in. The optional
- .B ty_getty
- and
- .B ty_init
- may be NULL (field omitted), point to a pointer that is NULL (null lenght
- field, i.e. ""), or an array of strings terminated by a NULL (field
- present). For now no useful distinction can be made between a omitted field
- and an empty field, so treat both cases as an omission.
- .SH FILES
- .TP 15
- .B /etc/ttytab
- The terminal device database
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR ttyname (3),
- .BR ttyslot (3),
- .BR ttytab (5),
- .BR init (8).
- .SH DIAGNOSTICS
- .B Setttyent()
- has the same return value and error codes as the
- .BR open (2)
- call it uses to open the ttytab file. The
- .BI get xxx ()
- functions return NULL on end of file, entry not found, or error. You can
- set
- .B errno
- to zero before the call and check it after.
- .SH NOTES
- .B Getttyent()
- and
- .B getttynam()
- return a pointer to static storage that is overwritten in each call.
- .PP
- The Minix
- .B struct ttyent
- has only the
- .B ty_name
- and
- .B ty_type
- fields in common with the BSD implementation. This does not seem to be a
- problem, because most third party software that need to know about terminals
- only look at the
- .B ty_name
- field.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)