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diff --git a/man3/tcgetpgrp.3 b/man3/tcgetpgrp.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..494ed43 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/tcgetpgrp.3 @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (C) 2002 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH tcgetpgrp 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +tcgetpgrp, tcsetpgrp \- get and set terminal foreground process group +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B "#include <unistd.h>" +.PP +.BI "pid_t tcgetpgrp(int " fd ); +.BI "int tcsetpgrp(int " fd ", pid_t " pgrp ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The function +.BR tcgetpgrp () +returns the process group ID of the foreground process group on the +terminal associated to +.IR fd , +which must be the controlling terminal of the calling process. +.\" The process itself may be a background process. +.PP +The function +.BR tcsetpgrp () +makes the process group with process group ID +.I pgrp +the foreground process group on the terminal associated to +.IR fd , +which must be the controlling terminal of the calling process, +and still be associated with its session. +Moreover, +.I pgrp +must be a (nonempty) process group belonging to +the same session as the calling process. +.PP +If +.BR tcsetpgrp () +is called by a member of a background process group in its session, +and the calling process is not blocking or ignoring +.BR SIGTTOU , +a +.B SIGTTOU +signal is sent to all members of this background process group. +.SH RETURN VALUE +When +.I fd +refers to the controlling terminal of the calling process, +the function +.BR tcgetpgrp () +will return the foreground process group ID of that terminal +if there is one, and some value larger than 1 that is not +presently a process group ID otherwise. +When +.I fd +does not refer to the controlling terminal of the calling process, +\-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.PP +When successful, +.BR tcsetpgrp () +returns 0. +Otherwise, it returns \-1, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EBADF +.I fd +is not a valid file descriptor. +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I pgrp +has an unsupported value. +.TP +.B ENOTTY +The calling process does not have a controlling terminal, or +it has one but it is not described by +.IR fd , +or, for +.BR tcsetpgrp (), +this controlling terminal is no longer associated with the session +of the calling process. +.TP +.B EPERM +.I pgrp +has a supported value, but is not the process group ID of a +process in the same session as the calling process. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR tcgetpgrp (), +.BR tcsetpgrp () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH VERSIONS +These functions are implemented via the +.B TIOCGPGRP +and +.B TIOCSPGRP +ioctls. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001. +.PP +The ioctls appeared in 4.2BSD. +The functions are POSIX inventions. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR setpgid (2), +.BR setsid (2), +.BR credentials (7) |