Subject: Re: pcvt and TIOCCONS
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/25/1996 10:09:59
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>
> Mark W. Eichin writes:
> > > We should probably define somehere the correct way to cycle through
> > > the available ptys (and have a library call that telnetd & friends
> > > can use rather than them all having their own
>
> I thought there was stuff in libutil to do all of this -- isn't there?
Yes; it's in openpty().
Then again, cloning devices would be a win for this...