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35 .Nd open a pseudo-terminal device
42 .Fn posix_openpt "int oflag"
45 Searches for an unused master pseudo-terminal device, opens it, and returns
46 a file descriptor associated the now used pseudo-terminal device.
49 argument has the same meaning as in the
55 returns a non-negative integer, which corresponds to a file descriptor
56 pointing to the master pseudo-terminal device.
57 Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
59 is set to indicate the error.
67 The standards committee did not want to directly expose the cloning device,
68 thus decided to wrap the functionality in this function.
69 The equivalent code would be:
72 posix_openpt(int oflag) {
73 return open("/dev/ptmx", oflag);