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pty is preferred instead of pts.



Dear all,

I have observed that GNU/kFreeBSD with kernel 9.0-2
returns master descriptors from the depreciated pty(4)
when calling forkpty(3), not from the expected pts(4),
which is the case for FreeBSD proper as well as
GNU/Linux. Why and how does this come about?
One negative aspect of this is that the master/slave
pair are not automatically deleted with similar ease.

Best regards,
  Mats Erik Andersson, on behalf of GNU Inetutils


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