Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:25:34 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What's a pseudo terminal? Message-ID: <34c353b6.473453@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113203758.24708n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113203758.24708n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:39:35 -0800 (PST), Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> wrote: >./MAKEDEV pty1 >./MAKEDEV pty2 >... >./MAKEDEV pty7 > >Nonintuitve but suddenly you have 255 pty's :-) ./MAKEDEV says pty* is a set of 32 master and slave pseudo terminals. What is the use and/or purpose of a pseudo terminal? John
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