[oclug] how to get a process's tty

[Roger Messier]

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:55:04 -0400 "Francis J. A. Pinteric"
<fja at linuxdoctor.biz> wrote:
> Look at the /proc/<pid>/fd directory. Using an `ls -l' command on that
> directory will give you all the file descriptors used by that process.
> I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to extract the device
> name.
> 
> It's easy to write a shell script at this point.
> 
> >>>--fja->

Thanks Francis, but since my program runs with my uid, that doesn't work
for processes owned by users other than me.  The program doesn't have
read permissions for processes owned by other users.

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