/* Open the master side of a pseudo-terminal. Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include /* Specification. */ #include #include #include #if defined __OpenBSD__ # include # include #endif /* posix_openpt() is already provided on glibc >= 2.2.1 (but is a stub on GNU/Hurd), Mac OS X >= 10.4, FreeBSD >= 5.1 (lived in src/lib/libc/stdlib/grantpt.c before 8.0), NetBSD >= 3.0, AIX >= 5.2, HP-UX >= 11.31, Solaris >= 10, Cygwin >= 1.7. Thus, this replacement function is compiled on Mac OS X 10.3, OpenBSD 4.9, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. Among these: - AIX has /dev/ptc. - HP-UX 10..11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 2.6..9, Cygwin 1.5 have /dev/ptmx. - HP-UX 10..11 also has /dev/ptym/clone, but this should not be needed. - OpenBSD 4.9 has /dev/ptm and the PTMGET ioctl. - Minix 3.1.8 have a list of pseudo-terminal devices in /dev. - On native Windows, there are no ttys at all. */ int posix_openpt (int flags) { int master; #ifdef _AIX /* AIX */ master = open ("/dev/ptc", flags); #elif (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__ /* mingw */ /* Mingw lacks pseudo-terminals altogether. */ master = -1; errno = ENOSYS; #elif defined __OpenBSD__ /* On OpenBSD, master and slave of a pseudo-terminal are allocated together, by opening /dev/ptm and applying the PTMGET ioctl to it. */ int fd; struct ptmget data; fd = open (PATH_PTMDEV, O_RDWR); if (fd >= 0) { if (ioctl (fd, PTMGET, &data) >= 0) { master = data.cfd; close (data.sfd); close (fd); } else { int saved_errno = errno; close (fd); errno = saved_errno; master = -1; } } else master = -1; #else /* Mac OS X, Minix, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5 */ /* Most systems that lack posix_openpt() have /dev/ptmx. */ master = open ("/dev/ptmx", flags); /* If all this does not work, we could try to open, one by one: - On Mac OS X: /dev/pty[p-w][0-9a-f] - On *BSD: /dev/pty[p-sP-S][0-9a-v] - On Minix: /dev/pty[p-q][0-9a-f] - On AIX: /dev/ptyp[0-9a-f] - On HP-UX: /dev/pty[p-r][0-9a-f] - On OSF/1: /dev/pty[p-q][0-9a-f] - On Solaris: /dev/pty[p-r][0-9a-f] */ #endif return master; }