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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:29:15 +0000
From: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
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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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Nick Craig-Wood
ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk