get the name of the slave pseudoterminal NAME ptsname, ptsname_r - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc ,...get the name of the slave pseudoterminal NAME ptsname, ptsname_r - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc ,......nding pseudoterminal slave device. The pathname of the slave device can be obtained using ptsname (3). The slave device pathname exists only as long as the master device is open…...pt (3) instead. STANDARDS GNU. HISTORY glibc 2.1. SEE ALSO grantpt (3), posix_openpt (3), ptsname (3), unlockpt (3), ptmx (4), pty (7)...DS POSIX.1-2008. HISTORY glibc 2.1. POSIX.1-2001. SEE ALSO grantpt (3), posix_openpt (3), ptsname (3), pts (4), pty (7)...llocation, as is the case on Linux— or an ioctl (2). SEE ALSO open (2), posix_openpt (3), ptsname (3), unlockpt (3), pts (4), pty (7)