PTY

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Feb 1 07:30:28 EST 2001


On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Roumen Petrov wrote:

> What is more portable: openpty () method or /dev/ptmx ?

ptmx is more portable, but openpty is nicer as it does most of the 
work in a libc function.

-d

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