08-17-2001
Unix/Linux can look like nearly anything you want it to look like. There are GUIs that can make it look nearly exactly like Windows, but I think any *NIX guru will tell you that the power contained in any of these systems stems from the command line. I find that I get the most work done from the command prompt in the text-only portion of the OS, or in a terminal within the GUI.
Hence, it CAN look and feel like windows, but I would suggest that the best description is something like a super-DOS.
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TTYSLOT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual TTYSLOT(3)
NAME
ttyslot - find the slot of the current user's terminal in some file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> /* on BSD-like systems, and Linux */
#include <stdlib.h> /* on System V-like systems */
int ttyslot(void);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
ttyslot(): _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED && ! _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500)
DESCRIPTION
The legacy function ttyslot() returns the index of the current user's entry in some file.
Now "What file?" you ask. Well, let's first look at some history.
Ancient History
There used to be a file /etc/ttys in Unix V6, that was read by the init(8) program to find out what to do with each terminal line. Each
line consisted of three characters. The first character was either '0' or '1', where '0' meant "ignore". The second character denoted the
terminal: '8' stood for "/dev/tty8". The third character was an argument to getty(8) indicating the sequence of line speeds to try ('-'
was: start trying 110 baud). Thus a typical line was "18-". A hang on some line was solved by changing the '1' to a '0', signaling init,
changing back again, and signaling init again.
In Unix V7 the format was changed: here the second character was the argument to getty(8) indicating the sequence of line speeds to try
('0' was: cycle through 300-1200-150-110 baud; '4' was for the on-line console DECwriter) while the rest of the line contained the name of
the tty. Thus a typical line was "14console".
Later systems have more elaborate syntax. System V-like systems have /etc/inittab instead.
Ancient History (2)
On the other hand, there is the file /etc/utmp listing the people currently logged in. It is maintained by login(1). It has a fixed size,
and the appropriate index in the file was determined by login(1) using the ttyslot() call to find the number of the line in /etc/ttys
(counting from 1).
The semantics of ttyslot
Thus, the function ttyslot() returns the index of the controlling terminal of the calling process in the file /etc/ttys, and that is (usu-
ally) the same as the index of the entry for the current user in the file /etc/utmp. BSD still has the /etc/ttys file, but System V-like
systems do not, and hence cannot refer to it. Thus, on such systems the documentation says that ttyslot() returns the current user's index
in the user accounting data base.
RETURN VALUE
If successful, this function returns the slot number. On error (e.g., if none of the file descriptors 0, 1 or 2 is associated with a ter-
minal that occurs in this data base) it returns 0 on Unix V6 and V7 and BSD-like systems, but -1 on System V-like systems.
CONFORMING TO
SUSv1; marked as LEGACY in SUSv2; removed in POSIX.1-2001. SUSv2 requires -1 on error.
NOTES
The utmp file is found various places on various systems, such as /etc/utmp, /var/adm/utmp, /var/run/utmp.
The glibc2 implementation of this function reads the file _PATH_TTYS, defined in <ttyent.h> as "/etc/ttys". It returns 0 on error. Since
Linux systems do not usually have "/etc/ttys", it will always return 0.
Minix also has fttyslot(fd).
SEE ALSO
getttyent(3), ttyname(3), utmp(5)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
2007-11-26 TTYSLOT(3)