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Re: pty is preferred instead of pts.



On 27/11/2013 19:14, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> 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.

See: #667448

-- 
Robert Millan


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