posix_openpt vs getpt??

[Florian Weimer]

* Samuel Thibault:

> One thing I'm unsure of: the Linux manpage says 
>
> It is equivalent to
>
>            open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
>
> But the Linux implementation is
>
> int fd = __posix_openpt (O_RDWR);
>
>
> Is getpt supposed to set the controlling tty or not?  Since the Linux
> behavior has been not to set O_NOCTTY since its introduction in 1998, I
> guess applications assumes !O_NOCTTY and it's the manpage which needs to
> be fixed?

I'm not sure if O_NOCTTY actually has an impact here.  Does /dev/ptmx
actually qualify as a terminal device?

In any case, I agree that the manual page should be fixed.  Would you
submit a patch, please?