10.46.42 ptsname ¶
POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/ptsname.html
Gnulib module: ptsname
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
- This function is missing on some platforms:
OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 14.
- This function fails to set errno on failure on some platforms:
FreeBSD 8.2.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
- On Solaris 11 2010-11, this function fails on all BSD-style /dev/pty*
device files.
- This function is not thread-safe on some platforms:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
Likewise, the gnulib replacement is not thread-safe.
Note that the Gnulib module ptsname_r is a version of this
function that is more likely to be thread-safe.