how to find the current tty from a daemon?

From: Andrej Hocevar (drejcica_at_volja.net)
Date: 08/06/03 

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:50:44 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to find out how I can tell the current tty from a daemon
written in C. ttyname() is useful only for the tty I start it on, but
how should I do it after that? Besides, ttyname() doesn't help if I
close fds 0, 1 and 2.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

    andrej
     

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