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35 .Nd grant access to a slave pseudo-terminal device
41 .Fn grantpt "int fildes"
45 function changes the mode and ownership of the slave pseudo-terminal device
46 that corresponds to the master pseudo-terminal device associated with
48 to be owned by the real user id of the calling process, group id of
50 The permissions are set to readable and writable by owner, and writable by
52 If the slave pseudo-terminal device was being accessed by other file
53 descriptors at the time, all such access will be revoked.
57 returns 0; otherwise a value of \-1 is returned and
59 is set to indicate the error.
63 function will fail if:
66 the corresponding pseudo-terminal device could not be accessed.
69 is not a valid descriptor.
72 is not associated with a master pseudo-terminal device.
77 and revoking accesses by other file descriptors are
84 ioctl(fildes, TIOCGRANTPT, 0);
96 Its first release was in