svn commit: r336211 - stable/11/lib/libutil
Alan Somers
asomers at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 11 19:48:16 UTC 2018
Author: asomers
Date: Wed Jul 11 19:48:14 2018
New Revision: 336211
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336211
Log:
MFC r334547:
pty.3: Add a HISTORY section
These functions were first added in 4.3 BSD-Reno, according to
http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/ and the CSRG svn repository.
Reviewed by: bcr, bjk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15652
Modified:
stable/11/lib/libutil/pty.3
Directory Properties:
stable/11/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/11/lib/libutil/pty.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/lib/libutil/pty.3 Wed Jul 11 19:46:56 2018 (r336210)
+++ stable/11/lib/libutil/pty.3 Wed Jul 11 19:48:14 2018 (r336211)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" "
-.Dd November 11, 2015
+.Dd June 2, 2018
.Dt PTY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -143,3 +143,18 @@ may set it to any value as described for
.Xr pty 4 ,
.Xr termios 4 ,
.Xr group 5
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn openpty
+and
+.Fn forkpty
+functions first appeared in
+.Bx 4.3 Reno.
+.Sh BUGS
+.Fn openpty
+writes the slave terminal's name to
+.Fa name ,
+but does not check that sufficient space is available.
+It is advisable to use
+.Xr ptsname 3
+instead.
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