Documentation Archive Developer
Search
ADC Home > Reference Library > Reference > Mac OS X > Mac OS X Man Pages

 

This document is a Mac OS X manual page. Manual pages are a command-line technology for providing documentation. You can view these manual pages locally using the man(1) command. These manual pages come from many different sources, and thus, have a variety of writing styles.

For more information about the manual page format, see the manual page for manpages(5).



tcgetsid(3)              BSD Library Functions Manual              tcgetsid(3)

NAME
     tcgetsid -- get the process group ID for the session leader for the con-trolling controlling
     trolling terminal

SYNOPSIS
     #include <termios.h>

     pid_t
     tcgetsid(int fildes);

DESCRIPTION
     The tcgetsid() function obtains the process group ID of the session for
     which the terminal specified by fildes is the controlling terminal.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion, tcgetsid() returns the process group ID asso-ciated associated
     ciated with the terminal.  Otherwise, a value of (pid_t)-1 is returned
     and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     The tcgetsid() function will fail if:

     [EACCES]           The fildes argument is not associated with a control-ling controlling
                        ling terminal.

     [EBADF]            The fildes argument is not a valid file descriptor.

     [ENOTTY]           The file associated with fildes is not a terminal.

SEE ALSO
     getsid(2), setpgid(2), setsid(2), tcgetpgrp(3), termios(4)

STANDARDS
     The tcgetsid() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

BSD                            December 20, 2003                           BSD