tcgetsid - get session ID
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ tcgetsid() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Description
The function tcgetsid() returns the session ID of the current session that has the terminal associated to
fd as controlling terminal. This terminal must be the controlling terminal of the calling process.
Errors
EBADFfd is not a valid file descriptor.
ENOTTY The calling process does not have a controlling terminal, or it has one but it is not described by
fd.
History
glibc 2.1. POSIX.1-2001.
This function is implemented via the TIOCGSIDioctl(2), present since Linux 2.1.71.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
tcgetsid - get session ID
Return Value
When fd refers to the controlling terminal of our session, the function tcgetsid() will return the
session ID of this session. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
See Also
getsid(2) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 tcgetsid(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#define_XOPEN_SOURCE500 /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include<termios.h>pid_ttcgetsid(intfd);
