TTYSLOT(3C) (C Programming Language Utilities) TTYSLOT(3C)
NAME
ttyslot - find the slot in the utmp file of the current user
SYNOPSIS
int ttyslot ( )
DESCRIPTION
ttyslot returns the index of the current user's entry in the
/etc/utmp file. This is accomplished by actually scanning
the file /etc/inittab for the name of the terminal
associated with the standard input, the standard output, or
the error output (0, 1 or 2).
FILES
/etc/inittab
/etc/utmp
SEE ALSO
getut(3C), ttyname(3C).
DIAGNOSTICS
A value of 0 is returned if an error was encountered while
searching for the terminal name or if none of the above file
descriptors is associated with a terminal device.
Page 1 May 1989