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GRANTPT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual GRANTPT(3)

NAME

     grantpt - grant access to the slave pseudoterminal

SYNOPSIS

     #include <stdlib.h>
     int grantpt(int fd);
 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
     grantpt():
         Since glibc 2.24:
             _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 ||
                 (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED)
         Glibc 2.23 and earlier:
             _XOPEN_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

     The  grantpt()  function  changes the mode and owner of the slave pseu-
     doterminal device corresponding to the master  pseudoterminal  referred
     to by fd.  The user ID of the slave is set to the real UID of the call-
     ing process.  The group ID is set to an unspecified value (e.g.,  tty).
     The mode of the slave is set to 0620 (crw--w----).
     The  behavior  of  grantpt()  is  unspecified  if  a  signal handler is
     installed to catch SIGCHLD signals.

RETURN VALUE

     When successful, grantpt() returns 0.  Otherwise,  it  returns  -1  and
     sets errno appropriately.

ERRORS

     EACCES The corresponding slave pseudoterminal could not be accessed.
     EBADF  The fd argument is not a valid open file descriptor.
     EINVAL The  fd argument is valid but not associated with a master pseu-
            doterminal.

VERSIONS

     grantpt() is provided in glibc since version 2.1.

ATTRIBUTES

     For  an  explanation  of  the  terms  used   in   this   section,   see
     attributes(7).
     +----------+---------------+----------------+
     |Interface | Attribute     | Value          |
     +----------+---------------+----------------+
     |grantpt() | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
     +----------+---------------+----------------+

CONFORMING TO

     POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES

     This is part of the UNIX 98 pseudoterminal support, see pts(4).
     Many  systems  implement  this function via a set-user-ID helper binary
     called "pt_chown".  On Linux systems with a devpts filesystem  (present
     since  Linux  2.2),  the kernel normally sets the correct ownership and
     permissions for the pseudoterminal slave  when  the  master  is  opened
     (posix_openpt(3)), so that nothing must be done by grantpt().  Thus, no
     such helper binary is required (and  indeed  it  is  configured  to  be
     absent during the glibc build that is typical on many systems).

SEE ALSO

     open(2), posix_openpt(3), ptsname(3), unlockpt(3), pts(4), pty(7)

COLOPHON

     This  page  is  part of release 4.16 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
     description of the project, information about reporting bugs,  and  the
     latest     version     of     this    page,    can    be    found    at
     https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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