ZCOM C I/F Library Routines

 

 

MAKEZLUNAME (3X)

 

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.

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