ctermid(3S)ctermid(3S)NAME
ctermid, ctermid_r - generate file name for terminal
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
char *ctermid (char *s);
char *ctermid_r (char *s);
DESCRIPTION
ctermid generates the path name of the controlling terminal for the
current process, and stores it in a string.
If s is a NULL pointer, the string is stored in an internal static area,
the contents of which are overwritten at the next call to ctermid, and
the address of which is returned. Otherwise, s is assumed to point to a
character array of at least L_ctermid elements; the path name is placed
in this array and the value of s is returned. The constant L_ctermid is
defined in the stdio.h header file.
ctermid_r is a reentrant version of ctermid. It differs from ctermid
only in that the parameter s must be supplied. The feature test macro
_SGI_REENTRANT_FUNCTIONS should be defined to make this function visible.
SEE ALSOttyname(3C).
WARNING
ctermid should not be called with s equal to a NULL pointer in a
multithreaded application due to the use of an internal static buffer for
the return value.
NOTES
The difference between ctermid and ttyname(3C) is that ttyname must be
handed a file descriptor and returns the actual name of the terminal
associated with that file descriptor, while ctermid returns a string
(/dev/tty) that will refer to the terminal if used as a file name. Thus
ttyname is useful only if the process already has at least one file open
to a terminal.
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