getting users' tty # into a C program

[Joel Spolsky]

In article <9794 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <441 at lakesys.UUCP> davek at lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) writes:
>>I am writing a C program that need a user's tty number (i.e. tty3A).  Is there
>>any internal/external function that can accomplish this?
>
>Most UNIX systems have a ttyname() library function for doing this.


failing that try fd=popen("tty"); fscanf(fd,"%s",ttyname); close(fd)


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