unlockpt — unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE #include <stdlib.h>
int unlockpt( |
int fd) ; |
The unlockpt
() function
unlocks the slave pseudo-terminal device (pty) corresponding
to the master pty referred to by fd
.
unlockpt
() should be called
before opening the slave side of a pty.
When successful, unlockpt
()
returns 0. Otherwise, it returns −1 and sets
errno
appropriately.