Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:58:37 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: dynamic pty driver... |
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Hi!
> No chowning or anything else necessary since the slave tty doesn't actually > exist in the filesystem...the master can only be opened once so it doesn't > matter that subsequent /dev/dpty opens get different masters. Only real > problem is that there's no file for the slave pty, meaning that the > program
Are you sure?
You want terminals to have names, even those allocated by screen etc. You need who to print something. And for write (1) & talk, you need name so you can open it.
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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