> > Maybe you are not old enough to remember the BSD pseudo-tty devices.
> > They were used before Unix98 when you want a device that behaves
> > like a terminal as far as the program is concerned, but operates
> > under control of another program. script used them, xterms used
> > them, telnetd uesd them... all of these now use the Unix98 ttys in
> > /dev/pts/ if that's available, so I guess they are on their way to
> > being obsolete.
>
> Don't look now, Linux has them too. They are /dev/pty[a-z][0-f].
(I didn't see anyone claim otherwise...)
Yes, Linux has support for Open Group's Unix98 standard ptys as of version
2.1.something (115?).
//Bj�rnen.
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