dcon@cbnewsc.att.com (david.r.connet) (10/25/90)
Does anyone know how I can figure out the name of the tty device I am on? (Please don't say ttyname(3), I know that.) The problem is after opening communication directly to /dev/tty, I need to figure out which device I'm actually on. (In case it matters, I'm on a SVR3.2.2 system.) ttyname() just reports "/dev/tty". Background: This is running under layers, and I need to identify if this is the window that the system is going to use to write messages to. (I can't run in that window.) I'm currently obtaining the name of the device, stuffing it in a utmp structure and using the getutline() call to see if there is a utmp entry. I don't want to assume that a user has not redirected stdin/stdout (strange things happen when they do that, so I don't want to allow them that). Please email me at "dcon@iwtng.att.com" as I don't regularly read this group. Thanks in advance. Dave Connet