1TTY(4)                     Linux Programmer's Manual                    TTY(4)
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NAME

6       tty - controlling terminal
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  file  /dev/tty  is  a character file with major number 5 and minor
10       number 0, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group root.tty.  It is a  syn‐
11       onym for the controlling terminal of a process, if any.
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13       In  addition  to the ioctl(2) requests supported by the device that tty
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17       Detach the calling process from its controlling terminal.
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19       If the process is the session leader, then SIGHUP and  SIGCONT  signals
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21       rent session lose their controlling tty.
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23       This  ioctl(2)  call  works  only  on  file  descriptors  connected  to
24       /dev/tty.   It  is  used by daemon processes when they are invoked by a
25       user at a terminal.  The process attempts to  open  /dev/tty.   If  the
26       open succeeds, it detaches itself from the terminal by using TIOCNOTTY,
27       while if the open fails, it is obviously not attached to a terminal and
28       does not need to detach itself.
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FILES

31       /dev/tty
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SEE ALSO

34       chown(1),  mknod(1),  ioctl(2),  termios(3),  console(4), tty_ioctl(4),
35       ttyS(4), agetty(8), mingetty(8)
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COLOPHON

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44Linux                             2003-04-07                            TTY(4)
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