tcgetsid(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | STANDARDS | HISTORY | SEE ALSO

tcgetsid(3)             Library Functions Manual             tcgetsid(3)

NAME         top

       tcgetsid - get session ID

LIBRARY         top

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500        /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
       #include <termios.h>

       pid_t tcgetsid(int fd);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The function tcgetsid() returns the session ID of the current
       session that has the terminal associated to fd as controlling
       terminal.  This terminal must be the controlling terminal of the
       calling process.

RETURN VALUE         top

       When fd refers to the controlling terminal of our session, the
       function tcgetsid() will return the session ID of this session.
       Otherwise, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the
       error.

ERRORS         top

       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor.

       ENOTTY The calling process does not have a controlling terminal,
              or it has one but it is not described by fd.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │ Interface                           Attribute     Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │ tcgetsid()                          │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS         top

       POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY         top

       glibc 2.1.  POSIX.1-2001.

       This function is implemented via the TIOCGSID ioctl(2), present
       since Linux 2.1.71.

SEE ALSO         top

       getsid(2)

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