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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getting users' tty # into a C program
Message-ID: <9794@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Mar 89 20:26:11 GMT
References: <441@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <441@lakesys.UUCP> davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) writes:
>I am writing a C program that need a user's tty number (i.e. tty3A).  Is there
>any internal/external function that can accomplish this?

Most UNIX systems have a ttyname() library function for doing this.
It doesn't work perfectly...