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getpt.3: Remove mention of O_NOCTTY

PATCH In review Samuel Thibault 2 participants 2 messages Dec 31, 2019 – Jan 1, 2020 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 getpt.3: Remove mention of O_NOCTTY

The glibc implementation of getpt has actually never been setting O_NOCTTY when opening /dev/ptmx or BSD ptys.

Signed-off-by Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
man3/getpt.3 renamed from man3/getpt.3.orig +1 -1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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-open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
+open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR);
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Hello Samuel

Quoted 4 lines · Samuel Thibault

The glibc implementation of getpt has actually never been setting O_NOCTTY when opening /dev/ptmx or BSD ptys.

Signed-off-by Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>

(Inline patches preferred.)

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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