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PTY(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual PTY(4) NAME pty -- BSD-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver SYNOPSIS device pty DESCRIPTION The pty driver provides support for the traditional BSD naming scheme that was used for accessing pseudo-terminals. When the device /dev/ptyXX is being opened, a new terminal shall be created with the pts(4) driver. A device node for this terminal shall be created, which has the name /dev/ttyXX. New code should not try to allocate pseudo-terminals using this inter- face. It is only provided for compatibility with older C libraries that tried to open such devices when posix_openpt(2) was being called. FILES The BSD-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver uses the following device names: /dev/pty[l-sL-S][0-9a-v] Pseudo-terminal master devices. /dev/tty[l-sL-S][0-9a-v] Pseudo-terminal slave devices. DIAGNOSTICS None. SEE ALSO posix_openpt(2), pts(4), tty(4) HISTORY A pseudo-terminal driver appeared in 4.2BSD. BUGS Unlike previous implementations, the master slave device nodes are destroyed when the PTY becomes unused. A call to stat(2) on a nonexis- tent master device will already cause a new master device node to be cre- ated. The master device can only be destroyed by opening and closing it. The pty driver cannot be unloaded, because it cannot determine if it is being used. FreeBSD 11.1 August 20, 2008 FreeBSD 11.1
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