From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:47:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040209124739.GC1738@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040209092915.GA11305@axis.demon.co.uk>
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
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-09 7:17 Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 7:21 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-09 7:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 8:12 ` Ricky Beam
2004-02-09 8:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 8:59 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-09 10:09 ` viro
2004-02-09 10:47 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-10 1:33 ` bill davidsen
2004-02-10 2:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 18:06 ` Olaf Hering
2004-02-09 9:29 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-02-09 12:47 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-02-09 13:40 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-02-09 14:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-09 17:51 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-09 18:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-09 20:59 ` Athanasius
2004-02-10 11:16 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-10 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 0:47 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
2004-02-10 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 1:35 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
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2004-02-09 13:49 Albert Cahalan
2004-02-09 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 17:18 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-09 20:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-10 11:40 ` Dominik Kubla
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2004-02-09 14:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-09 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 16:57 Joerg Pommnitz
2004-02-10 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-02-10 19:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 19:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 21:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-02-10 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-11 5:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
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