Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

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!

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