ZCOM C I/F Library Routines

MAKEZLUNAME (3X)

 

 

TTY

Returned

Comment

 

 

Name

Name

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

console

MYnsole

Trailing part of TTY name is used.

 

 

The libraries libzcom_c.a and libpthread.a must be linked into the calling

 

 

program by giving the options “-lzcom_c -lpthread” to cc(1) or ld(1).

Threads

 

This routine may be called from a multi-threaded application using the

Considerations

 

POSIX (1003.1c) kernel threads API package. This routine has the

 

 

following characteristics when called by a multi-threaded application:

 

 

cancellation point

Thread cancellation can occur when a thread

 

 

 

 

calls this routine.

 

 

 

async-cancel unsafe The calling thread’s cancelability type must be

 

 

 

 

PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED if

 

 

 

 

cancellation is enabled.

 

 

async-signal unsafe It cannot be called from a signal handler.

 

 

fork unsafe

 

It cannot be called by a child process after

 

 

 

 

fork(2) but before exec(2).

 

 

See the WARNING section below for more information on using this

 

 

routine in a multi-threaded application.

 

PARAMETERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

name Name to be merged with TTY suffix.

 

RETURN VALUE

 

Routine makezluname returns a null-terminated character string,

 

 

which consists of the user-supplied name parameter merged with the

 

 

TTY name suffix.

 

 

 

 

If two different programs call this routine with the same name

WARNING

 

 

 

parameter and from the same TTY, the same ZLU name will be

 

 

returned.This implies that if multiple copies of a program are

 

 

run from the same TTY, they will all get the same ZLU name. If

 

 

they are run from different terminals, different ZLU names will

 

 

be returned.

 

 

 

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