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10 .Nd tty snoop interface
14 .Fn ioctl fd SNPSTTY &dev
16 .Fn ioctl fd SNPGTTY &dev
18 .Fn ioctl fd FIONREAD &result
20 /dev/snp? are snoop devices which allow users to attach to any tty
21 and watch activities on it.
22 The kernel must be compiled with
26 device must be loaded,
27 for these devices to be available.
31 device with a tty to be observed, open the
33 device and then use the SNPSTTY ioctl.
34 The argument passed to the ioctl is the address of a variable of type
36 To detach the snp device from a tty use a pointer to a value of (dev_t)-1.
38 The SNPGTTY ioctl returns information about the current tty attached to
43 The FIONREAD ioctl returns a positive value equal to the number of characters
45 Special values defined are:
46 .Bl -tag -width SNP_TTYCLOSE
48 device overflow occurred, device detached.
53 device has been detached by user or tty device has been closed
64 device first appeared in
67 .An Ugen J.S. Antsilevich Aq ugen@NetVision.net.il
70 This manual page is horribly stale and wildly inaccurate in some places.
72 While in line mode, user input can't be seen.
73 No signals may be sent to the observed tty.