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28.Dd December 29, 1996
29.Os
30.Dt LOGIN_TTY 3
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm login_tty
33.Nd prepare a tty for a new login session
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Fd #include <libutil.h>
36.Ft int
37.Fn login_tty "int fd"
38.Pp
39Link with
40.Va -lutil
41on the
42.Xr cc 1
43command line.
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The function
46.Fn login_tty
47prepares a terminal for a new login session.  The file descriptor
48.Ar fd
49passed to
50.Fn login_tty
51must be opened for reading and writing on a terminal device.  It will be
52made the controlling terminal for the calling process, after allocating
53a new session with
54.Xr setsid 2 .
55This terminal device will also be made the standard input, standard output,
56and standard error output of the calling process.
57.Sh RETURN VALUES
58.Fn Login_tty
59returns -1 if it could not make the device referenced by
60.Ar fd
61the controlling terminal of the calling process, and 0 otherwise.
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr dup2 2 ,
64.Xr ioctl 2 ,
65.Xr setsid 2 ,
66.Xr tty 4
67