Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:18:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r364259 - stable/12/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <202008151718.07FHIbE2039840@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: trasz Date: Sat Aug 15 17:18:36 2020 New Revision: 364259 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/364259 Log: MFC r354139: Document the fact that Linux binaries depend on pty(4). Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/linux.4 stable/12/share/man/man4/pty.4 Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/linux.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/share/man/man4/linux.4 Sat Aug 15 17:02:23 2020 (r364258) +++ stable/12/share/man/man4/linux.4 Sat Aug 15 17:18:36 2020 (r364259) @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ limited Linux system file system .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr brandelf 1 , +.Xr pty 4 , .Xr elf 5 , .Xr fdescfs 5 , .Xr linprocfs 5 , Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/pty.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/share/man/man4/pty.4 Sat Aug 15 17:02:23 2020 (r364258) +++ stable/12/share/man/man4/pty.4 Sat Aug 15 17:18:36 2020 (r364259) @@ -27,19 +27,21 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 20, 2008 +.Dd October 28, 2019 .Dt PTY 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pty -.Nd BSD-style and System V-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver +.Nd old-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device pty" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for the traditional BSD naming scheme that was -used for accessing pseudo-terminals. +used for accessing pseudo-terminals before it was replaced by +.Xr pts 4 . +This traditional naming is still used in Linux. When the device .Pa /dev/ptyXX is being opened, a new terminal shall be created with the @@ -59,7 +61,8 @@ interface. It is only provided for compatibility with older C libraries that tried to open such devices when .Xr posix_openpt 2 -was being called. +was being called, +and for running Linux binaries. .Sh FILES The BSD-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver uses the following device names:
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