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TIOCGEXCL

(2const)

exclusive mode

System callsmanpages-dev 6.9.1-1also documents TIOCEXCL, TIOCNXCL
#include <asm/termbits.h> /* Definition of TIOC*XCL constants */ #include <sys/ioctl.h> int ioctl(int fd, TIOCEXCL); int ioctl(int fd, TIOCGEXCL, int *argp); int ioctl(int fd, TIOCNXCL);

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

DESCRIPTION

Put the terminal into exclusive mode. No further open(2) operations on the terminal are permitted. (They fail with EBUSY, except for a process with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.)
If the terminal is currently in exclusive mode, place a nonzero value in the location pointed to by argp; otherwise, place zero in *argp.
Disable exclusive mode.

RETURN VALUE

On success, 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

HISTORY

Linux 3.8.

See also