From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 19:09:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21267 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-0172.jumpnet.com [207.8.61.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21134 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id VAA10240; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 21:07:20 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's a pseudo terminal? References: <34c353b6.473453@mail.cetlink.net> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 19 Jan 1998 21:06:47 -0600 In-Reply-To: jak@cetlink.net's message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:25:34 GMT" Message-ID: <85hg6zvo6w.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 9 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.17/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) writes: > What is the use and/or purpose of a pseudo terminal? Pseudo-terminals are paired devices, one of which presents a terminal interface, and the other is controlled by a program. Examples of programs that use ptys are telnetd, rlogind, and script. See pty(4) for more information. -Dave