NAME¶

isatty - test whether a file descriptor refers to a terminal

LIBRARY¶

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <unistd.h>

int isatty(int fd);

DESCRIPTION¶

The isatty() function tests whether fd is an open file descriptor referring to a terminal.

RETURN VALUE¶

isatty() returns 1 if fd is an open file descriptor referring to a terminal; otherwise 0 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS¶

EBADF

fd is not a valid file descriptor.

ENOTTY

fd refers to a file other than a terminal. On some older kernels, some types of files resulted in the error EINVAL in this case (which is a violation of POSIX, which specifies the error ENOTTY).

ATTRIBUTES¶

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

STANDARDS¶

POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY¶

POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO¶

fstat(2), ttyname(3)