Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:40:05 +0000 | From | Nick Craig-Wood <> | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:47:39PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:17:27AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Does anyone still care about old-style BSD ptys, i.e. /dev/pty*? > > > > I use them quite a lot for testing serial port stuff in shell scripts, > > eg connect one process which expects a serial port to /dev/ttys0 and > > another to /dev/ptys0. I expect there is a sane way of doing this new > > style pty's - I just don't know it! > > Look up "Pseudo-Terminals" in the libc info pages. > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_376.html
Interesting but doesn't help my shell script!
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