[oclug] how to get a process's tty

[Roger Messier]

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:14:32 -0400 Patrick Smith <patsmith at pobox.com>
wrote:
> 
> It looks to me that the "tty number" is actually a 2 byte value 
> containing the major and minor device numbers.  I don't *know* this is
> always the case, but it seems to be true in at least one case.  :-) 
> You might want to do some research to verify this before depending on
> it. (Might it actually contain four one byte numbers, the first two of
> which are 0 here?  I believe I'm not up to date on Linux device
> numbering.)

Hmm, the man page for proc doesn't give any details about the tty
number, and the man page for stat doesn't give any details about st_rdev
which I'm currently comparing against.  I'll see if google turns up
anything.

Thanks.
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