LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man4 / tty.4

diff --git a/original/man4/tty.4 b/original/man4/tty.4
index c7826ba..b1ea7c0 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man4/tty.4
+++ b/original/man4/tty.4
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
 .\"     Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL)
 .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
 .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
@@ -17,9 +18,9 @@
 .\" GNU General Public License for more details.
 .\"
 .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
-.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free
-.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111,
-.\" USA.
+.\" License along with this manual; if not, see
+.\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified 2003-04-07 by Michael Kerrisk
@@ -28,16 +29,21 @@
 .SH NAME
 tty \- controlling terminal
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The file \fI/dev/tty\fP is a character file with major number 5 and
+The file
+.I /dev/tty
+is a character file with major number 5 and
 minor number 0, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group root.tty.
 It is a synonym for the controlling terminal of a process, if any.
 .LP
 In addition to the
 .BR ioctl (2)
 requests supported by the device that
-\fBtty\fP refers to, the
+.B tty
+refers to, the
 .BR ioctl (2)
-request \fBTIOCNOTTY\fP is supported.
+request
+.B TIOCNOTTY
+is supported.
 .SS TIOCNOTTY
 Detach the calling process from its controlling terminal.
 .sp
@@ -51,18 +57,22 @@ and all processes in the current session lose their controlling tty.
 .sp
 This
 .BR ioctl (2)
-call only works on file descriptors connected
-to \fI/dev/tty\fP.
+call works only on file descriptors connected
+to
+.IR /dev/tty .
 It is used by daemon processes when they are invoked
 by a user at a terminal.
-The process attempts to open \fI/dev/tty\fP.
+The process attempts to open
+.IR /dev/tty .
 If the open succeeds, it
-detaches itself from the terminal by using \fBTIOCNOTTY\fP, while if the
+detaches itself from the terminal by using
+.BR TIOCNOTTY ,
+while if the
 open fails, it is obviously not attached to a terminal and does not need
 to detach itself.
 .SH FILES
 /dev/tty
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR chown (1),
 .BR mknod (1),
 .BR ioctl (2),
@@ -72,3 +82,12 @@ to detach itself.
 .BR ttyS (4),
 .BR agetty (8),
 .BR mingetty (8)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.