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+.\"	$NetBSD: ttyname.3,v 1.3 1995/02/27 05:54:52 cgd Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"     @(#)ttyname.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dt TTYNAME 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ttyname ,
+.Nm isatty ,
+.Nm ttyslot
+.Nd get name of associated terminal (tty) from file descriptor
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft char *
+.Fn ttyname "int fd"
+.Ft int
+.Fn isatty "int fd"
+.Ft int
+.Fn ttyslot 
+.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 named
+.Pa /dev/tty Ns Em xx
+and for which an entry exists
+in the initialization file
+.Pa /etc/ttys.
+(See
+.Xr ttys 5 . )
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn isatty
+function
+determines if the file descriptor
+.Fa fd
+refers to a valid
+terminal type device.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn ttyname
+function
+gets the related device name of
+a file descriptor for which
+.Fn isatty
+is true
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn ttyslot
+function
+fetches the current process' control terminal number from the
+.Xr ttys 5
+file entry.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
+.Fn ttyname
+function
+returns the null terminated name if the device is found and
+.Fn isatty
+is true; otherwise 
+a
+.Dv NULL
+pointer is returned.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn ttyslot
+function
+returns the unit number of the device file if found; otherwise
+the value zero is returned.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /etc/ttys -compact
+.It Pa /dev/\(**
+.It Pa /etc/ttys
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ioctl 2 ,
+.Xr ttys 5
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Fn isatty ,
+.Fn ttyname ,
+and
+.Fn ttyslot
+function
+appeared in
+.At v7 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Fn ttyname
+function leaves its result in an internal static object and returns
+a pointer to that object. Subsequent calls to
+.Fn ttyname
+will modify the same object.