Pseudoterminal terminology in POSIX

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Mon Aug 10 18:17:53 GMT 2020


Hello,

Zack Weinberg, le lun. 10 août 2020 14:10:42 -0400, a ecrit:
> "control(ler) side" still gives the wrong impression IMNSHO.  The
> pty[p-r][0-9a-f] | ptmx devices don't exert any actual control over
> anything.

? They do to some extent: writing ^C on that side will send a SIGINT to
the foreground process there (even if owned by another user!).

Samuel


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