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.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Modified 2003-04-07 by Michael Kerrisk
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.\"
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.TH TTY 4 2017-11-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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tty \- controlling terminal
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The file
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.I /dev/tty
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is a character file with major number 5 and
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minor number 0, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group root.tty.
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It is a synonym for the controlling terminal of a process, if any.
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.PP
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In addition to the
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.BR ioctl (2)
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requests supported by the device that
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.B tty
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refers to, the
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.BR ioctl (2)
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request
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.B TIOCNOTTY
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is supported.
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.SS TIOCNOTTY
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Detach the calling process from its controlling terminal.
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.PP
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If the process is the session leader,
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then
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.B SIGHUP
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and
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.B SIGCONT
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signals are sent to the foreground process group
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and all processes in the current session lose their controlling tty.
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.PP
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This
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.BR ioctl (2)
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call works only on file descriptors connected
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to
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.IR /dev/tty .
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It is used by daemon processes when they are invoked
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by a user at a terminal.
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The process attempts to open
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.IR /dev/tty .
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If the open succeeds, it
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detaches itself from the terminal by using
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.BR TIOCNOTTY ,
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while if the
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open fails, it is obviously not attached to a terminal and does not need
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to detach itself.
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.SH FILES
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.I /dev/tty
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR chown (1),
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.BR mknod (1),
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.BR ioctl (2),
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.BR ioctl_console (2),
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.BR ioctl_tty (2),
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.BR termios (3),
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.BR ttyS (4),
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.BR agetty (8),
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.BR mingetty (8)
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.SH COLOPHON
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This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux
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.I man-pages
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project.
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A description of the project,
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information about reporting bugs,
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and the latest version of this page,
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can be found at
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\%https://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.
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