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+.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
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+.\" Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
+.\" from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology --
+.\" Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
+.\" Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of
+.\" Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the
+.\" event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
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+.\" the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd March 21, 2013
+.Dt POSIX_OPENPT 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm posix_openpt
+.Nd "open a pseudo-terminal device"
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In stdlib.h
+.In fcntl.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn posix_openpt "int oflag"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn posix_openpt
+function allocates a new pseudo-terminal and establishes a connection
+with its master device.
+A slave device shall be created in
+.Pa /dev/pts .
+After the pseudo-terminal has been allocated, the slave device should
+have the proper permissions before it can be used (see
+.Xr grantpt 3 ) .
+The name of the slave device can be determined by calling
+.Xr ptsname 3 .
+.Pp
+The file status flags and file access modes of the open file description
+shall be set according to the value of
+.Fa oflag .
+Values for
+.Fa oflag
+are constructed by a bitwise-inclusive OR of flags from the following
+list, defined in
+.In fcntl.h :
+.Bl -tag -width ".Dv O_CLOEXEC"
+.It Dv O_RDWR
+Open for reading and writing.
+.It Dv O_NOCTTY
+If set
+.Fn posix_openpt
+shall not cause the terminal device to become the controlling terminal
+for the process.
+.It Dv O_CLOEXEC
+Set the close-on-exec flag for the new file descriptor.
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn posix_openpt
+function shall fail when
+.Fa oflag
+contains other values.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion, the
+.Fn posix_openpt
+function shall allocate a new pseudo-terminal device and return a
+non-negative integer representing a file descriptor, which is connected
+to its master device.
+Otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn posix_openpt
+function shall fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er ENFILE
+The system file table is full.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The value of
+.Fa oflag
+is not valid.
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+Out of pseudo-terminal resources.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ptsname 3 ,
+.Xr pts 4 ,
+.Xr tty 4
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn posix_openpt
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
+The ability to use
+.Dv O_CLOEXEC
+is an extension to the standard.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn posix_openpt
+function appeared in
+.Fx 5.0 .
+In
+.Fx 8.0 ,
+this function was changed to a system call.
+.Sh NOTES
+The flag
+.Dv O_NOCTTY
+is included for compatibility; in
+.Fx ,
+opening a terminal does not cause it to become a process's controlling
+terminal.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Ed Schouten Aq Mt ed@FreeBSD.org
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