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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:47:39 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
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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