Different terminal ids in ps and tty

Question

The proccess I've started has a different terminal id from tty result. Is there some rule for that? Is there a way to find out what terminal id would programms have if I started them?

user@machine:~> tty
/dev/pts/1
user@machine:~> ps -e | grep mc
3761 pts/0    00:00:00 mc

I'm connected to an openSUSE 11.3 machine via putty.

Answer 1

I think mc allocated another tty for the spawned tty process. Guess you'll have a better luck without mc.