> No chowning or anything else necessary since the slave tty doesn't actually
> exist in the filesystem...the master can only be opened once so it doesn't
> matter that subsequent /dev/dpty opens get different masters. Only real
> problem is that there's no file for the slave pty, meaning that the
> program
Are you sure?
You want terminals to have names, even those allocated by screen
etc. You need who to print something. And for write (1) & talk, you
need name so you can open it.
Pavel
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