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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-24 14:44:05 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-24 14:44:05 +0000
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Improve the ttyname(3) manual page.
- Remove unrelated references to tty(5). - Remove unneeded relation with FILE *. - Add better cross references.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/ttyname.325
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
index e583833..9420bbe 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
@@ -47,19 +47,7 @@
.Ft int
.Fn isatty "int fd"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-These functions operate on the system file descriptors for terminal
-type devices.
-These descriptors are not related to the standard
-.Tn I/O
-.Dv FILE
-typedef, but refer to the special device files found in
-.Pa /dev
-and for which an entry exists
-in the initialization file
-.Pa /etc/ttys
-or pseudo-terminals.
-(See
-.Xr ttys 5 . )
+These functions operate on file descriptors for terminal type devices.
.Pp
The
.Fn isatty
@@ -100,11 +88,6 @@ The
.Fn ttyname_r
function returns 0 if successful.
Otherwise an error number is returned.
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/ttys" -compact
-.It Pa /dev/\(**
-.It Pa /etc/ttys
-.El
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn ttyname_r
@@ -122,8 +105,10 @@ argument
is smaller than the length of the string to be returned.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr ioctl 2 ,
-.Xr ttys 5
+.Xr fdevname 3 ,
+.Xr ptsname 3 ,
+.Xr tcgetattr 3 ,
+.Xr tty 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn isatty
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